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The original record of death is derived from MOH and Royal Malaysia
Police (PDRM). The death information received from MOH is keyed in into the
system by the Counter Operator and is checked by the Supervisor. Dual Layer
checking is made to ensure the validity and accuracy of death data is
registered (including birth and death cases).
The resource of PDRM‘s death record is derived through the strategic
collaboration of PDRM-JPN. The integration allows quality, consistency and
updated information of death accessible direct from the police station.
Completeness and availability of data enables the registration of death to be
verified and registered at timely manner and accurately.
On the other hand, records of marriage, divorce and ruju’ (NCR) for
Muslim are from JAKIM and JAIN. Meanwhile, records NCR for Non-Muslim
was received from National Registration Department (NRD).
Births, deaths and NCR for Non-Muslim registered data from NRD are
provided to DOSM through the Secure File Tranfers Protocol (SFTP). NRD will
upload the data to server and DOSM will download from the server. Next, the
data will be stored in the DOSM data warehouse that is the Statistics Data
Warehouse (StatsDW). The data will also be stored at the Population and
Demographic Statistics Division for backup. The data are transferred from NRD
to DOSM on a monthly basis. DOSM will receive the data usually in the last
week of the month.

2.5 Production and dissemination
The publication of vital statistics which include birth, death, marriage and
divorce will be processed and published by DOSM. Birth and death statistics
are published quarterly via Quarterly Demographic Statistics and annually via
Vital Statistics Publication. Vital Statistics Publication was first published in
1963 and Quarterly Demographic Statistics was first published in 2017.
Quarterly Demographic Statistics provides statistics on live births, deaths
and population on current year whereas annually Vital Statistics Publication
provide more detail on statistics live births, deaths and stillbirths. The
demographic indicators such as crude birth rate, crude death rate, crude rate
of natural increase, total fertility rate and age-specific death rate are included
in the Vital Statistics Publication. The statistics have been compiled based on
concepts and guidelines from Principles and Recommendations for a Vital
Statistics System, Revision 3, United Nations Statistics Division (2014).
Marriage and divorce statistics was first published in December 2015 for
internal circulation and in 2018, the complete publication was published in
December, 2018.

2.6 Incentives and disincentives for registration
In order to facilitate easy access to each citizen to register the vital events,
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