10 JUNE 2009

RAZAMAN RIDZUAN
&
SALMIAH PONGGOT

DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS, MALAYSIA

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3 Programmes

19 Divisions

14 State Offices

Please refer to attachment 1

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36 Officers
57 Supporting Staff
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 No specific survey on informal sector and
estimated using an indirect method.
Using Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and
Mixed Income (MI).
- ratio of MI to GDP provide estimates of the
contribution of informal sector to GDP.

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 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005

Mixed
Income (MI) 37,212 33,407 43,270 49,943 43,652 57,454

Gross
Domestic 355,138 349,723 374,802 415,065 488,359 535,945
Product
(GDP)

% (MI)/(GDP) 10.5 9.6 11.5 10.2 8.9 10.7

Source: Distribution and Use of Income Accounts and Capital Account.

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 Pre-2004 No official information on informal
sector.
2004 Pioneer study was done for testing the
data collection method.
2006 Pilot test covers the whole of Malaysia.
(Aug,Sept,Oct).
Informal Sector Survey will be undertaken
regularly starting August 2009.

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 Not registered with Companies Commission
of Malaysia;
All or at least one product of services is for sale or barter
transaction;
Employs 10 workers or less and workers are
not covered by social security; and
Involves in non agricultural activities.

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Concept & Approach

Informal sector concept is based on the

concept accepted by the 15th I ICLS 1993 and
17th ICLS 2001 with reference made to SNA
1993.
Using Household Approach.

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Scope & Coverage

Geographically covers urban & rural in each

state in Malaysia.
Respondent s are those who reside
permanently in private dwelling, 15 years
age group, working in non-agriculture sector
and not working with the government.
Covered 3,168 enumeration blocks
(approximately 25,344 households).
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 No. Involved in
Region No. of Samples %
Informal Sector

Peninsular Malaysia 20,267 2,894 14.3

Northern 5,979 899 15.0

Eastern 3,436 783 22.8
Southern 5,369 690 12.9
Middle 5,483 522 9.5

East Malaysia 3,119 432 13.9

Sabah 1,610 226 14.0

Sarawak 1,509 206 13.7

MALAYSIA 23,386 3,326 14.2

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 Not registered
Often invisible home-based activities
Often small scale but large in numbers
Mobile
Often no proper account is kept
Open and close quickly, frequently
 Informal Sector Survey will be undertaken
regularly as part of a module under LFS.
With the availability of regular data, NA will
attempt to estimate the contribution of
informal sector to GDP on annual basis.
Apply the estimation of informal sector by
using Labor Input Method (LIM).

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