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Data as of 2006

This table provides a partial lookup for codes under the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) Revision 4, as applied and used by publications in Malaysia. The SITC is primarily used by the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM), for instance when categorising and analysing external trade and commodity data.

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How is this data produced?

The SITC used in Malaysia is based on the SITC published by the United Nations Statistics Division, which is used as a global reference in the classification of international merchandise trade.

What caveats I should bear in mind when using this data?

This lookup only contains 1-digit codes for now. Its granularity will be increased from time to time, in line with the expansion of datasets on the site.

Publication(s) using this data

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Metadata

Dataset description

Variable definitions

Digits
[Integer] Number of digits; this column can be used as a filter if you only want to keep 1 digit codes, for example
Section
[String] 1-digit code; please ensure that you read this column as a string.
Description (EN)
[String] Description for the code, in English
Description (BM)
[String] Description for the code, in Malay

Name in Dataset	Variable	Definition
digits (Integer)	Digits	Number of digits; this column can be used as a filter if you only want to keep 1 digit codes, for example
section (String)	Section	1-digit code; please ensure that you read this column as a string.
desc_en (String)	Description (EN)	Description for the code, in English
desc_bm (String)	Description (BM)	Description for the code, in Malay

Last updated:

09 Mar 2024, 00:00

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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 copy of the license is available Here.

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Data

Full Dataset (CSV)

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Full Dataset (Parquet)

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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.dosm.gov.my/dictionaries/sitc.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=sitc&limit=3" 

response_json = requests.get(url=url).json()
pprint.pprint(response_json)

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