Lecturers in Public Universities by Citizenship & Sex
Data as of 2023Number of lecturers in public universities at national and state level, broken down by citizenship and sex.
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This dataset is tabulated from administrative records maintained by the Ministry of Higher Education.
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Dataset description
Number of lecturers in public universities at national and state level, broken down by citizenship and sex.
Variable definitions
- Date
- State
- University
- Citizenship
- Sex
- Academic Staff
Name in Dataset | Variable | Definition |
|---|---|---|
date (Date) | Date | Date in YYYY-MM-DD format, with MM-DD set to 01-01 as the data is at annual frequency |
state (Categorical) | State | One of 16 states, or Malaysia for national-level data |
university (Categorical) | University | Name of the university, or 'All Universities' for state-level data (for states with more than 1 public university) |
citizenship (Categorical) | Citizenship | Either all nationalities ('all'), citizens ('citizen'), or non-citizens ('non_citizen') |
sex (Categorical) | Sex | Either both sexes ('both'), male ('male'), or female ('female') |
staff (Integer) | Academic Staff | Number of academic staff |
Last updated:
01 Sept 2024, 12:00
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- Ministry of Higher Education
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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.data.gov.my/education/lecturers_uni.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=lecturers_uni&limit=3"
response_json = requests.get(url=url).json()
pprint.pprint(response_json)
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