S

salaries & wages paid

This refers to gross emoluments paid to employees during the reference year, inclusive of salaries, wages, bonuses, commission, overtime pay, dismissal pay and allowances before deduction of employees’ contribution to Employees' Provident Fund (EPF), Social Security Schemes or any other deductions. Allowances to working proprietors, working partners and unpaid family workers are not included.
 

sale price

Sales price should be net of discounts, rebates and similar allowances granted, but should include the value of goods traded in or bartered as part of the sale

sample design

A stratified two-staged sample design is adopted, that is:

Primary strata:             Made up of the states in Malaysia; and

Secondary strata:        Made up of the urban and rural strata.

Two-stage sample selections are implemented and samples are drawn randomly. The first stage units of sample selection are the EBs while the second stage units are the LQs within the EBs. All households and persons within the selected LQs are canvassed. At every stage of selection, the units are selected systematically with equal probability within each level of the secondary strata.
 

sample size

The sample size for this survey is required to represent overall population at the fixed level of analysis. this sample size has accounted for the element as follows:

(i) Findings from the previous survey;

(ii) Level of sampling desing; and

(iii) Desired error.

To finalize the sample size, cost, time and human resources are the factors that are taken into consideration.
 

sampling errors

Sampling errors is a result of estimating data based on probability sampling. This errors can be measured by estimating the Relative Standard Errors and expressed as a percentage. It is used as an indicator of the precision of the estimated parameter studied. This estimate reflects the level of variation was estimated through a survey variables compared with the population parameter.

For instance, in HIS & BA 2014, the mean monthly gross household income for Malaysia was RM6,141 with RSE of 0.4 per cent. In Other words, the standard error (SE) is approximately RM25. Based on a 95 per cent confidence level (á = 0.05), the mean monthly gross household income was found to be in the range of RM6,092 - RM6,189 per month.