Unemployed person by stratum and state
This data set shows the number of unemployed persons by urban and rural strata for all states in Malaysia. The statistics is derived from Labour Force Survey (LFS) which is conducted every month using household approach and refers to those between the working age of 15-64 years old.
The unemployed are classified into two groups that is the actively unemployed and inactively unemployed. The actively unemployed include all persons who did not work during the reference week but were available for work and were actively looking for work during the reference week. Inactively unemployed persons include the following categories: a. persons who did not look for work because they believed no work was available or that they were not qualified; b. persons who would have looked for work if they had not been temporarily ill or had it not been for bad weather; c. persons who were waiting for result of job applications; and d. persons who had looked for work prior to the reference week.
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.
Data Dictionary
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| Data last updated | June 19, 2020 |
| Metadata last updated | June 19, 2020 |
| Created | June 19, 2020 |
| File Format | CSV |
| License | Creative Commons Attribution |
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