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.
Yes it is. The surveys are conducted in accordance to the Statistics Act 1965 (Revised -1989)
DOSM issues statistics information on Rubber, Crops, Fisheries and Livestock. This information is distributed in the form of report. The reports are available in Adobe Acrobat PDF files. The data are at the State and establishment level.
