This data set shows the number of employed persons by occupation for all states in Malaysia for year 1982 until 2021. The statistics is derived from Labour Force Survey (LFS) which is conducted every month using household approach from 1982-2020.
Employed persons are those between the working age of 15-64 years old who at any time during the reference week of LFS had worked at least one hour for pay, profit or family gain (as an employer, employee, own-account worker or unpaid family worker).
Occupation is classified according to the following classification:
(i) Year 1982-2000, Dictionary of Occupational Classification, Malaysia 1980 based on the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO-68).
(ii) Year 2001-2010, Malaysia Standard Classification of Occupations (MASCO) 1998 based on the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO-88).
(iii) Starting 2011, Malaysia Standard Classification of Occupations (MASCO) 2008 based on the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO-08).
For a person having more than one job, only the job at which he worked for the longest number of hours during the reference week is treated as his principal occupation. Should the number of hours worked for each job is the same, then the job with the highest income is the principal occupation. In cases where the number of hours worked and the income earned from each job are the same, the job at which he was working for the longest period of time is considered as the principal occupation.
W.P. Labuan is gazzeted as a Federal Territory in 1984 while W.P. Putrajaya is gazzeted as a Federal Territory in 2001. The statistics for W.P. Putrajaya for 2001-2010 is treated as part of Selangor. Statistics for W.P. Putrajaya is available separately since 2011 onwards.
LFS was not conducted during the years 1991 and 1994.
Value for year 2011-2014 were updated based on the population estimates of the respective years.
