Information and Communication Technology Satellite Account (ICTSA) of Malaysia focuses on a particular aspect of the economy for example contribution of ICT to the nation. It also permits further linkages to additional information specific to ICT such as income, exports, imports and employment. ICT consists of industries such as manufacturing, trade, services and content & media industries.
The basis of ICTSA compilation in Malaysia is the framework of supply and use tables (SUT). However, it only focuses on ICT products and industries. The supply table indicates the goods and services of ICT products that are supplied by each producer. Meanwhile, use table tracks the usage of those products by industries, government, households and exports.
Supply of each product (valued at purchasers’ prices) consists of;
- Domestic production by industry (valued at basic prices);
- Imports;
- Transport, retail and wholesale trade margins; and
- Taxes less subsidies on production and imports.
Use of each product (valued at purchasers’ prices) consists of:
- Intermediate use by industries (products that are consumed by industries in the process of producing other products); and
- Final use by type of expenditure. Final use includes consumption by households and government, products that have been capitalised, changes in inventories and exports.
A comprehensive use table includes primary inputs of production namely compensation of employees, gross operating surplus and other taxes less subsidies on products and production for each industry.
Information and Communication Technology Satellite Account (ICTSA) of Malaysia is based on the System of National Accounts 2008, OECD Guide to Measuring the Information Society 2011 and OECD Internet Economy Outlook 2012. The concepts and definitions are adapted to Malaysia’s requirement.
The definition of urban is:
"Gazetted areas with their adjoining built-up areas, which had a combined population of 10,000 or more at the time of the Census 2010 or the special development area that can be identified, which at least had a population of 10,000 with at least 60 % of population (aged 15 years and above) were involved in non-agricultural activities."
Built-up areas were contiguous to a gazetted area and had at least 60% of their population (aged 15 years and above) engaged in non-agricultural activities.
Special development areas are areas of development that can be identified and separated from any gazetted area or built- up area more than 5 km and the area had a population of at least 10,000 with 60% of the population (aged 15 years and above) were involved in non-agricultural.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) measures the percentage change through time in the cost of purchasing a constant "basket" of goods and services representing the average pattern of purchases made by a particular population group in a specified time period. The "basket" is of an unchanging or equivalent quantity and quality of goods and services, consisting of items for which there are continually measurable market prices over time. Changes in the costs of items in the basket are therefore due only to "pure" price movements, i.e. price movements that are not associated with changes in the quality and / or quantity of the set of consumer goods and services in the basket.
Other than providing the publications and data, DOSM also provide the consultancy services on statistical methods to conduct survey such as frame, sampling and questionnaire design, field operation, processing and data analysis. Furthermore DOSM also provide training.
Currently, DOSM only offers the opportunity to conduct industrial training or practical training to students of Institutions of Higher Learning in Malaysia.
