PUTRAJAYA: The National Statistics and Data Council, set up to strengthen governance in the country's statistical system, had its inaugural meeting on Thursday( Jan 27), chaired by Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob. The Prime Minister said data was a national asset that needed to be managed well to provide returns to the country in the form of information to guide the nation towards achieving policy goals and the national vision.“ Coordination of diverse information at the national level is critica

Amid a raging debate on the quality of official data and the sampling methodologies followed, the government has renamed and expanded the scope of an existing standing committee headed by former chief statistician of India Pronab Sen.... TO READ THE FULL STORY, SUBSCRIBE NOW NOW AT JUST RS 249 A MONTH.... Subscribe To Insights Key stories on business-standard. com are available to premium subscribers only. Already a BS Premium subscriber?...

PETALING JAYA: A chief data officer( CDO) will be appointed in government departments, ministries and agencies as part of an effort to strengthen the gathering and management of data, says Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob. The Prime Minister said the CDO would be appointed through the reassignment of existing officers in each federal and state governmental agencies, ministries or departments in stages from this year.“ The National Statistics and Data Council( MSDN) has held its inaugural meeting i

This caused confusion and some speculation in the media, which distracts from the message the statistics are conveying.“ An explanation of the methodology used to arrive at the daily number of infections was published on 16 December.... OSR has previously made clear its expectation that data and methods should be made equally available to all before any planned statement is made.... He added: “ I appreciate the urgency of this particular situation meant that the statement used the most up-to-d

SEOUL: South Korea's consumer prices in May rose faster than expected and at their fastest annual pace in nearly 14 years, government data showed on Friday. The consumer price index( CPI) rose 5.4% in May from a year before, the Statistics Korea data showed, speeding up from a 4.8% rise the previous month and faster than 5.1% tipped in a Reuters poll.It was the fastest annual growth since August 2008 and stood above the central bank's 2% target for a 14th consecutive month. The core CPI, which e

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South Korea's factory output in October shrank at its sharpest pace in nearly 1-1/ 2 years, government data showed on Tuesday, as global chip shortages continued to weigh on car production. Industrial output last month unexpectedly fell by a seasonally adjusted 3.0% month-on-month, Statistics Korea data showed, following a 1.1% decline in September and logging the biggest decline since May 2020. That also missed the 0.4% growth tipped in a Reuters poll of analysts, by a large margin." Continued

Trade figuresEXTERNAL trade statistics and the producer price index( PPI) for October 2021 alongside corporate earnings will dominate this week’s data calendar.... The Statistics Department is expected to release trade data today and PPI tomorrow. Analysts expect trade surplus to be around RM26. 9bil in October from an-all time high of RM26. 1bil in September 2021. Malaysia’s total trade in September 2021 surged 25.5%, reaching RM195. 5bil as compared to RM155. 8bil in September 2020. Also in f

OTTAWA, May 17( Xinhua)--Racialized Canadians aged 25 to 64 years were about half as likely as the rest of the population to hold senior management positions, Statistics Canada revealed on Tuesday. The new data shed light on the unique experiences of racialized Canadians, whether they immigrated to Canada or were born in the country, the national statistical office said, using data from the 2006 and 2016 censuses, the 2011 National Household Survey, and the 2020 General Social Survey on Social I

The Index of Industrial Production( IIP) growth rate in June 2023 fell to 3.7 per cent from 5.3 per cent in May, according to the data released by the government.... The data released by the National Statistical Office( NSO) showed that the manufacturing sector's output increased by 3.1 per cent in June 2023.... Power output grew 4.2 per cent in June 2023....