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Key Statistics of Labour Force in Malaysia, July 2019
Principal Statistics of Labour Force, Malaysia, Second Quarter (Q2) 2019 9 August 2019
Key Statistics of Labour Force in Malaysia, June 2019 12 July 2019
Key Statistics of Labour Force in Malaysia, May 2019 14 June 2019
Key Statistics of Labour Force in Malaysia, April 2019 10 May 2019
Principal Statistics of Labour Force, Malaysia, First Quarter (Q1) 2019 10 May 2019
Key Statistics of Labour Force in Malaysia, March 2019 Show all release archives
Overview
Labour force participation rate decreased to 68.5%
The labour force participation rate in July 2019 decreased 0.1 percentage point to 68.5 per cent as compared to the previous month. Similarly, year-on-year labour force participation rate decreased 0.1 percentage point (July 2018: 68.6%).
The number of labour force in this month rose 2.0 per cent against July 2018 to 15.70 million persons. During the same period, employed persons also increased 2.0 per cent to 15.18 million persons.
Unemployment rate remained at 3.3%
The unemployment rate in July 2019 remained at 3.3 per cent. During this month, the number of unemployed accounted for 524.8 thousand persons, increased 0.7 per cent as compared to the previous month.
Unemployment rate (seasonally adjusted) in July 2019 also remained at 3.3 per cent.
TECHNICAL NOTES
This information is derived from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) which was conducted to collect information on the structure and distribution of labour force, employment and unemployment.
The survey population cover persons who live in private living quarters and excludes persons residing in institutions such as hotels, hostels, hospitals, prisons, boarding houses and workers residing in construction work site.
The survey comprises of the economically active and inactive population. To measure the economically active population, the LFS uses the age limit of 15 to 64 years. The economically active population comprises of those employed and unemployed whereas those who are inactive is classified as outside the labour force.
LFS uses the actual status approach, where a person is classified on the basis of his labour force activity during the reference week.
- Labour force refers to those who, during the reference week are in the 15 to 64 years (in completed years at last birthday) and who are either employed or unemployed.
- Employed refers to all persons who, at any time during the reference week worked at least one hour for pay, profit or family gain (as an employer, employee, own-account worker or unpaid family worker). Also considered as employed are persons who did not work during the reference week because of illness, injury, bad weather, leave, labour dispute and social or religious reasons but had a job, farm, enterprise or other family enterprise to return to. Also included are those on temporary lay-off with pay who would definitely be called back to work.
- Unemployed
Unemployed refers to those who do not have a job but are interested to work. There are two groups of unemployed that is the actively unemployed and inactively unemployed.
- Outside Labour Force
All persons not classified as employed or unemployed as stated above are classified as outside labour force. Includes housewives, students (including those going for further studies), retired, disabled persons and those not interested in looking for a job.
- Labour Force Participation Rate
The economic activity of a population depends on the demographic characteristics of that population. The proportion of economically active population, therefore, differs between sub-groups of that population. These variations are measured by specific activity rates termed as labour force participation rate. Labour force participation rate is defined as the ratio of the labour force to the working age population (15 to 64 years), expressed as percentage.
- Unemployment rate is the proportion of unemployed population to the total population in labour force. This rate measures the percentage of unemployed population in the labour force.
Population Benchmarks
Population by characteristics of age group, ethnicity and state were used as benchmarks to produce labour statistics.
Starting with the monthly release of the Principal Statistics of Labour Force, Malaysia, January 2016, the principal statistics of labour is estimated based on the current population estimates as compared to the previous series which used population projections based on the Population and Housing Census of Malaysia, 2010. This rebase is to obtain statistics that is more consistent with current population structure.
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DATO' SRI DR. MOHD UZIR MAHIDIN
CHIEF STATISTICIAN MALAYSIA
DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS, MALAYSIA
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