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The Malaysian Economy In Brief is released monthly with the aim to provide a snapshot of the economy in tabular and graphical forms for current and latest years.

Information contained in this publication are as follows:

• Economic Growth Rates (GDP and GNI)
• Balance of Payments - Current Account
• External Debt and Net International Reserves
• Federal Government Revenue and Expenditure
• External Trade
• Labour Force, Employment and Unemployment
• Index of Industrial Production
• Consumer Price Index
• Producer Price Index
• Exchange Rate of the Malaysian Ringgit

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This report is published monthly beginning from the first release of the data for November 2000. The System of Economic Indicators is designed to signal impending changes in the direction of overall economic activity and help analyze the short-term prospect of the economy. The system currently adopted by the Department of Statistics incorporates a set of coincident, leading and lagging indices.

The Coincident Index serves as a proxy indicator for the aggregate economic activity of the country.

The Leading Index provides early signal on the direction in which the economy is going. The Leading Index consists of different economic series which consistently lead the Coincident Index by several months. The Lagging Index, on the other hand, serves to confirm what had happened to the economy. This index measures the performance of cyclical movements by the leading and coincident indices. All time series used for the compilation of the indices are seasonally adjusted to smooth out variation within month due to the different number of working days or trading-days in each month. For the composite leading indicators, the seasonally adjusted series is further subjected to smoothing for better judgment of the course the economy is likely to take.

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This publication contains statistics on various sectors of the economy in Malaysia based on the data collected from the Quarterly Business Tendency Survey.

The report presents qualitative indicators of the outcome for the past three months as well as the expectations for the next three and six months. An accounting concept known as "net balance" has been used in analysing the results.

Detailed statistical tables are included to facilitate users in analysing the current business situation and forecasting short-term economic developments in Malaysia. Explanatory notes relating to the survey methodology, concepts, questionnaire, data collection etc. are provided to facilitate greater understanding among users.

Malaysia Economic Statistics - Time Series, contains detailed information on national accounts, balance of payments, external trade, agriculture, manufacturing, construction, mining, employment and population. This report includes all the retrospective data from the earliest time on each subject area while taking into consideration the inter-temporal comparability of the data series.

The publication of the Distribution & Use of Income Accounts and Capital Account provides a comprehensive picture of macroeconomic indicators concerning income, saving, investment and net lending/borrowing of each institutional sector in the economy for reference years 2006 to 2008.

This publication provides the sequence of accounts which consist of five main accounts namely production account, primary distribution of income account, secondary distribution of income account, use of income account and capital account. The compilation of the Distribution & Use of Income Accounts and Capital Account is based on the recommendation outlined in the System of National Account 1993.

To assist users in understanding this publication, technical notes relating to scope, methodology as well as definitions of the elements in the Distribution & Use of Income Accounts and Capital Account have been incorporated. The detail of accounts are presented in the last part of this publication.

The Input-Output (I-O) tables are a complete and detailed account on transactions related to production and consumption of goods and services between producers and consumers and its interdependencies among the industries in the market. The I-O tables are the result of the systematic data collection, evaluation and compilation of vast statistical information regarding production and consumption covering a wide range of economic sectors. In the compilation of the I-O tables, all the values are balanced between the supply and demand by industrial sectors so as to ensure the accuracy.

The I-O tables provide information that can be used for impact economic analysis such as output inducement, value added inducement, import inducement as well as economic linkages. The Department of Statistics, Malaysia had published six sets of Malaysia I-O tables for reference year of 1978, 1983, 1987, 1991, 2000 and 2005. The latest I-O tables produced by the Department for reference year 2005 use the concepts and definitions based on the System of National Accounts (SNA), 1993 and Handbook of Input-Output Table Compilation and Analysis (1999) published by United Nations.

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The Input-Output Tables for 2005 are published in two series of publications. The second series of Input-Output Tables 2005 (Volume 2) publication is the continuation from the first publication which consists of six Basic Tables and 13 Symmetric Tables.

For this publication, the Basic Tables contain information on commodity taxes, trade margins and transport margins commodity by activity for domestic and import. Meanwhile, the Symmetric Tables contain information on commodity taxes, trade margins and transport margins for absorption matrix, input coefficient and inverse matrix commodity by commodity. Besides that, the Symmetric Tables also contain absorption matrix, input coefficient and inverse matrix activity by activity. These tables are used as a basis to observe the interdependence between production sectors, impact on economic policy and for forecasting purposes.

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