Household Income by Percentile
Data as of 2022Percentile-resolution household income data at national level.
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How is this data produced?
This data is is based on Household Income Surveys (HIS) and Household Income & Expenditure Surveys (HIES) carried out from 1970 to 2022. The survey is carried out at least twice in any rolling five-year period to produce representative data regarding income, poverty and access to basic amenities for Malaysian households. In particular, this dataset provides deeper insight into the distribution of household income at national level, by tabulating key household income metrics by percentile (100 equally sized groups), rather than the typically-published decile (10 groups) or quartile (4 groups). There are 4 metrics on monthly household income provided in the dataset:
- Mean for percentile K, which is the average among households within percentile K only.
- Median for percentile K, which is the median among households in percentile K only. An additional implication is that (K - 0.5)% of households have monthly household income less than or equal to this amount. For example, 12.5% of households have monthly household income less than or equal to the median within the 13th percentile.
- Minimum income for percentile K, which is the minimum among households in percentile K. All households within percentile K have income greater than or equal to this amount.
- Maximum income for percentile K, which is the maximum among households in percentile K. No households within percentile K have income exceeding this amount.
What caveats I should bear in mind when using this data?
This data should be used with caution as the relative standard errors are larger due to the higher resolution. For a full account of the relative standard errors for the survey as well as the detailed survey methodology, please refer to the HIES Technical Notes.
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Dataset description
Percentile-resolution household income data at national level.
Variable definitions
- Date
- Percentile
- Variable
- Income
Name in Dataset | Variable | Definition |
|---|---|---|
date (Date) | Date | The date in YYYY-MM-DD format, with MM-DD set to 01-01 as this is annual data |
percentile (Integer) | Percentile | Number from 1 to 100 |
variable (Categorical) | Variable | Either mean, median, minimum or maximum, as explained in the methodology |
income (Integer, RM) | Income | Gross monthly household income, in RM. Values for the minimum for the 1st percentile and maximum for the 100th percentile have been nulled due to identifiability concerns. |
Last updated:
28 Jul 2023, 12:00
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Data source(s)
- Department of Statistics Malaysia
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License
This data is made open under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). A copy of the license is available Here.
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Connect directly to the data with Python.
# If not already installed, do: pip install pandas fastparquet
import pandas as pd
URL_DATA = 'https://storage.dosm.gov.my/hies/hies_malaysia_percentile.parquet'
df = pd.read_parquet(URL_DATA)
if 'date' in df.columns: df['date'] = pd.to_datetime(df['date'])
print(df)Sample OpenAPI query
The following code is an example of how to make an API query to retrieve the data catalogue mentioned above. You can use different programming languages by switching the code accordingly. For a complete guide on possible query parameters and syntax, please refer to the official Open API Documentation.
import requests
import pprint
url = "https://api.data.gov.my/data-catalogue?id=hies_malaysia_percentile&limit=3"
response_json = requests.get(url=url).json()
pprint.pprint(response_json)
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