54TH SESSION OF THE UNITED NATIONS STATISTICAL COMMISSION (UNSC)
1 March 2023 (Wednesday)
New York
DOSM Representatives:a. YBhg. Dato' Sri Dr. Mohd Uzir Mahidin, Chief Statistician Malaysia
b. Ms. Ezatul Nisha Abdul Rahman, Director, Strategic Communication and International Division
The session deliberated on the
.Item 3(d): Economic Statistics
. Item 3(e): National Accounts
. Item 3 (f): Business and trade statistics
. Item 3 (g): Regional statistical development
. Item 3 (h): Environmental-economic accounting 
. Item 3 (i): Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics
In Item 3(d), Malaysia informs that the Malaysian Well-being Index (MyWI) report is published annually to measure the levels of people’s well-being from an economic and social perspective, covering 14 components with administrative resources. Malaysia has also recently published the Malaysia Happiness Index (MHI) Report for 2021. Malaysia is dedicated to compiling data with high adherence/compliance quality, reliability, and timeliness and has acknowledged all the work done by the commission and affiliated organisations for upgrading the System of National Account 2008. Malaysia is therefore constantly improving its capacity for the SNA, the national statistical system and will keep concentrating on enhancing its ability to provide the more thorough statistics suggested by the SNA 2008. Malaysia expressed interest in cooperating with the African region during their statement for Item 3(g) related to one of the three main thematic areas, namely digitalization and integration of data science initiatives and is willing to contribute knowledge in terms of best practices in producing labour market indicators, particularly on scraping information relating to job vacancies after taking their experience with the implementation of big data analytics for job vacancies advertised online by producing Job Market Insights and My Job Profile every quarter. Malaysia has shown support for Item 3(i), to fully participate and cooperate in activities to map and support the implementation of the Fundamental Principles and compliance by national statistical agencies and government in addition to any activities organised by the Conference of Europeans, aiming to improve the performance of and compliance with the Principles. Malaysia also agrees with a proposal made under the same Item that the Statistical Commission will discuss and decide on creating a board of advisers to address Member States' non-compliance and lack of application of the Fundamental Principles and prevent violations of the Principles. The committee should be given the authority to investigate and act.For those who missed watching the live sessions, let's watch the recordings at:
https://media.un.org/en/asset/k1h/k1hrky4zb6 (3rd Meeting) https://media.un.org/en/asset/k14/k14est7ifm (4th Meeting)Stay Tuned
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