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of e-commerce to GDP recorded 6.3 per cent attributed by e-commerce for
non ICT industry 5.1 per cent and e-commerce for ICT industry 1.2 per cent.

4. Conclusion
Basically, the ICT contributions can be obtained or derived from the
statistics/breakdown of Gross Domestics Products. However, the
comprehensive information and overall performance of digital economy can
be gained through extraction of the three surveys compilation in perspective
of industry player and household contribution. Besides the ICT contribution,
value of e-commerce, information regarding usage of ICT among businesses
and household can be obtained from this paper.
The contribution of digital economy in Malaysia provides details and
comprehensive information on the specific economic activity and benefit to
the people in which facilitates the policy makers, researchers, industry players
and citizens to monitor, measure and formulating sound policies for the
transformation digital programmes. These data are significant to measure the
performance of overall digital economy in Malaysia.

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