1. RAZAMAN RIDZUAN & SALMIAH PONGGOT 1 10 JUNE 2009 DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS, MALAYSIA

2. 3 Programmes19 Divisions14 State Offices 2 Please refer to attachment 1

3. 3 36 Officers 57 Supporting Staff

4.  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. 4

5. 5 200020012002200320042005 Mixed Income (MI)37,21233,40743,27049,94343,65257,454 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) 355,138349,723374,802415,065488,359535,945 % (MI)/(GDP)10.59.611.510.28.910.7 Source: Distribution and Use of Income Accounts and Capital Account.

6.  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. 6

7.  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. 7

8. Concept & Approach  Informal sector concept is based on the concept accepted by the 15 th I ICLS 1993 and 17 th ICLS 2001 with reference made to SNA 1993.  Using Household Approach. 8

9. 9 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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11. RegionNo. of Samples No. Involved in Informal Sector % Peninsular Malaysia 20,2672,89414.3 Northern 5,97989915.0 Eastern 3,43678322.8 Southern 5,36969012.9 Middle 5,4835229.5 East Malaysia 3,11943213.9 Sabah 1,61022614.0 Sarawak 1,50920613.7 MALAYSIA23,3863,32614.2 11

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17.  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

18.  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). 18