TRADE BY ENTERPRISE CHARACTERISTIC (TEC)Setting the foundation for the harmonization of economic statistics, the Malaysia Statistical Business Register (MSBR) has been designed, developed and enhanced by Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM). MSBR is a fundamental property in maintaining the comprehensive list of businesses and companies operating in Malaysia. It is used as the source of frames for all business surveys. MSBR plays an essential role in the construction and maintenance of an integrated economic information system. The growing demand for better and more detailed business statistics has put focus on MSBR and its role in the production of business statistics.
The function of MSBR is further expanded by integrating it with trade database to be able the trade information connects to the traders’ characteristics. By integrating these two databases, DOSM can be in the better position to provide statistical indicators on trade by enterprise characteristics. Micro-data linking of MSBR and trade is to gain more data insights without initiating new survey. Ultimately, it enriches the international trade statistics by providing closer views of traders who are actively engaged in importing and exporting. This project is conducted to complement conventional trade statistics for an in-depth trade statistics of which the traditional trade statistics are unable to portray its business characteristic, economic activity, revenue size, enterprise age etc.
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Price Intelligence (PI)In the era of ‘Big Data’, Price Intelligence (PI) implementation has been able to be enhanced to the next level, leveraging the capability of Big Data in collecting large data from various sources and transform them into better structure. It contributes new evolution in empirical research related with Price Intelligence as comprehensive data is now available so that complex statistical model can be implemented.
The transformation of business characteristics from offline (physical market) into online (e-commerce) creates a lot of market places offering various products and prices. All data availability issues that were facing before in doing experiments in statistics are now solved with the implementation of Big Data. By PI, different prices of the same good can be obtained through various websites, providing a modernized price collection.
PI’s main goal is to create a price list of different goods and provide the solution for consumers on the best prices available. Via web scraping, PI extracts the product prices from the internet through a method called web crawling. The prices will then be formed into a structured data and they’ll be classified into different categories. The consumer can then see for themselves a list of prices from hundreds of sellers and sort out the best prices for them through what we call Price Basket Enrichment, whereby the prices are made public.
Public Maturity Assessment on Official Statistics (PMAOS) & Real Time News on Official Statistics (RTOS)PMAOS and RTOS were developed to provide DOSM with holistic and comprehensive insight of perception developed by media. Hence, these development later will give the precious reference for the DOSM to take the necessary action from perception and reaction made by publics.
With the technology constantly advancing, voices travel faster, easier, and opinions should no longer go through multiple channels to be reached out. PMAOS and RTOS created by DOSM to take all voices of community on statistics from the social media such as Facebook comments and tweets. It is mainly determine the degree of “happiness” of the community towards the official statistics.
The Development for these two modules will benefited DOSM where any information on public opinion and reaction on media can be acquired by the department. DOSM will be the first agencies to have the immediate information whether it was reported in mainstream or social media and it can be gather by top issue; top persons; influencers or by media share.
Real Time Business Status (rtbs)The aim of building a strategic partnership between agencies from different areas is to share their special function for the advancement of the partners. The collaboration between DOSM and Companies Commission of Malaysia (SSM) through online system integration is an effective ways to get a direct access of business entities information. It is known as Real Time Business Status (RTBS).
It is a web service where DOSM needs to send requests based on specified format to get latest business information. DOSM is able to obtain the current and most updated data of the business entities including operational status and financial report. It allows DOSM to get latest data of business entities at any time in a fully integrated system.
The latest business entities information from RTBS is updated in MSBR, where it is a basic instrument for all economic surveys and censuses in DOSM.
STATISTICAL Classification (BizCode@Stats)BizCode@Stats is a mobile application that is built as a platform for sharing codes and the classfication of economic statistics in Malaysia. This application contains information on economic classification such as industries and products in digital format which was previously published as a book publication. Statistical classification of economic activities will be used / utilized by government agencies. private sector and researchers for the purpose of data collection through the implementation of censuses and surveys.
BizCode@Stats is one of the project under STATSBDA Big Data Analytics initatives in DOSM. The application is expected to be used aggressively by industry players in Malaysia for the purpose of company’s and MyGST registration. Among the agencies that are targeted to use this application are SSM, LHDN, EPF, MIDA and other agencies.
