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Cross section: Recipients by Ethnicity
Data as of 31 Dec 2021, 23:59Number of monthly wage recipients
How is this data produced?
The Salaries & Wages Survey collects data via a stratified two-stage sample design, thus obtaining representative data at the national and state level. The implementation of this survey is based on guidelines and recommendations of the International Labour Organization (ILO) with reference to An Integrated System of Wages Statistics. For more details on the survey design and scope, please refer to the Technical Notes in the latest Salaries & Wages Survey Report.
What caveats I should bear in mind when using this data?
The primary aim of the survey is to produce statistics on monthly wage and salary recipients. Accordingly, the data does not cover all individuals classified as 'employed' in the Labour Force Survey - the primary categories excluded are employers, own-account workers, and unpaid family workers. Furthermore, except for the data broken down by ethnicity, all data is for Malaysian citizens only.
Publication(s) using this data
Salaries & Wages Survey Report, 2021, the latest edition of the annual salaries and wages data published by DOSM.
Metadata
Dataset description
This dataset presents statistics from the annual Salaries & Wages Report. The implementation of the survey is based on guidelines and recommendations of the International Labour Organization (ILO) with reference to An Integrated System of Wages Statistics.
Variable definitions
- Cross section: Recipients by Ethnicity
- Variable
- Variable (English)
- Variable (Malay)
- Sex
- Year
- Cross section: Mean Wage by Ethnicity
- Cross section: Median Wage by Ethnicity
Last updated
04 Oct 2022, 12:00
Next update
30 Aug 2023, 12:00
Data source(s)
- DOSM
URLs to dataset
License
This data is made open under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). A human-readable copy of the license is available Here.
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Code
Connect directly to the data with Python.
# If not already installed, do: pip install pandas fastparquet
import pandas as pd
URL_DATA = 'https://storage.googleapis.com/dosm-public-economy/salaries_ethnicity_sex_xs.parquet'
df = pd.read_parquet(URL_DATA)
if 'date' in df.columns: df['date'] = pd.to_datetime(df['date'])
print(df)Department of Statistics Malaysia
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