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records based on ILO guidelines and SNA concepts also the four countries
mentioned as best practice.
Thus, the idea to establish Malaysian Bureau of Labour Statistics (MBLS) is
to strengthen the demand data as MBLS is intended as a production and
monitoring center for Malaysian labour market information on a regular basis
for the strategic planning and socio-economic development of the country.
Ideally, by having a labour account, will helps to reduce the costs of data
collection. Through labour account the same question related to labour will
not be asking twice in different surveys in order for quality control. Labour
account also can improve the data quality checks. After the adjustment of the
data which have different definitions, concepts and coverage, the remaining
discrepancies within these definition relationships will reveal the magnitude of
error in one or more sources used (Buhmann et al., 2002).

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