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Access resource data via a web API with powerful query support. Further information in the main CKAN Data API and DataStore documentation.

Endpoints »

The Data API can be accessed via the following actions of the CKAN action API.

Create	`https://www.data.gov.my/data/api/3/action/datastore_create`
Update / Insert	`https://www.data.gov.my/data/api/3/action/datastore_upsert`
Query	`https://www.data.gov.my/data/api/3/action/datastore_search`
Query (via SQL)	`https://www.data.gov.my/data/api/3/action/datastore_search_sql`

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Query example (first 5 results)

https://www.data.gov.my/data/api/3/action/datastore_search?limit=5&resource_id=2903e39a-dde6-4053-818e-ebdb8066d8b7

Query example (results containing 'jones')

https://www.data.gov.my/data/api/3/action/datastore_search?q=jones&resource_id=2903e39a-dde6-4053-818e-ebdb8066d8b7

Query example (via SQL statement)

https://www.data.gov.my/data/api/3/action/datastore_search_sql?sql=SELECT * from "2903e39a-dde6-4053-818e-ebdb8066d8b7" WHERE title LIKE 'jones'

Example: Javascript »

A simple ajax (JSONP) request to the data API using jQuery.

        var data = {
          resource_id: '2903e39a-dde6-4053-818e-ebdb8066d8b7', // the resource id
          limit: 5, // get 5 results
          q: 'jones' // query for 'jones'
        };
        $.ajax({
          url: 'https://www.data.gov.my/data/api/3/action/datastore_search',
          data: data,
          dataType: 'jsonp',
          success: function(data) {
            alert('Total results found: ' + data.result.total)
          }
        });

Example: Python »

      import urllib
      url = 
'https://www.data.gov.my/data/api/3/action/datastore_search?limit=5&resource_id=2903e39a-dde6-4053-818e-ebdb8066d8b7&q=title:jones'
      fileobj = urllib.urlopen(url)
      print fileobj.read()

1982 2021 Employed persons by age group and...

URL: https://archive.data.gov.my/data/dataset/a48b73ab-adc5-46bb-9529-a03bbed1610a/resource/4777e0a0-d16c-4ced-9e0f-301b38a29de4/download/_202302080914130_1982-2021-employed-persons-by-age-group-and-state-dataset.csv

This data set shows the number of employed persons by age group for all states in Malaysia from year 1982 until 2021. The statistics is derived from Labour Force Survey (LFS) which is conducted every month using household approach.

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).

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.

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Column	Type	Label	Description
Year	text
Country or State	text
Age Group	text
Person in Percentage	text

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Field	Value
Data last updated	March 7, 2023
Metadata last updated	March 7, 2023
Created	March 7, 2023
File Format	CSV
License	Creative Commons Attribution

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