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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`

Querying »

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()

dataset

URL: https://archive.data.gov.my/data/dataset/1ab59b36-120c-4253-ade3-79688a7fc3f4/resource/2826844c-05c5-45de-8b9d-982b5014b77d/download/_202211241009370_1982-2021-employed-persons-by-ethnic-group-and-state-_dataset.csv

This data set shows the percentage of employed persons by ethnic group and 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).

Ethnic group is categorised within Malaysian citizens after separating those who are non-citizens, classified as follows:

Malaysian citizens Bumiputera Chinese Indians Others Non-Malaysian citizens

LFS was not conducted during the years 1991 and 1994.

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Column	Type	Label	Description
Year	text
State	text
Citizen Category	text
Ethnic Group	text
Value in Thousands	text

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Field	Value
Data last updated	December 7, 2022
Metadata last updated	December 7, 2022
Created	December 7, 2022
File Format	CSV
License	Creative Commons Attribution

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