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• The extension of the death registration/confirmation of death
and post mortem from 12 hours to 7 days.
b. Combining burial permit with death registration as well as to
introduce on line system for these two procedures; and
c. Undertakes National Statistical Review to strengthen DOSM to
obtain administrative data from other agencies.
iii. Improvements on Cause of Deaths Statistics
a. Improve Medically Certified Deaths by using verbal autopsy
approach; and
b. Increase certification of coders that will contribute to improve data
quality on Causes of Death.
iv. Improvement in service delivery especially on birth and death
registration
a. Empowerment of NRD Outreach Program
• Facilitate and deliver services to the people's doors, especially
the rural people in remote areas that are less able in terms of
transportation, physical and also income
• Determine each citizen has access to basic services (i.e. obtain
identification document)
• Services and facilities in Rural Transformation Centre (RTC) and
also Urban Transformation Centre (UTC).
v. Improve engagement and collaboration between agencies. Various
engagements are undertaking particularly in address specific issues for
example collaborate with Ministry of Health in providing training to
DOSM’s Coders for ICD 10.

4. Issues and Challenges
There are two issues with regards to births and deaths encompassing
under reporting and data integration. In terms of under reporting, births and
deaths statistics in health facilities only covered the registered cases to health
facilities excluding those which are not reported directly to health facilities.
There is a need to integrate data among agencies by maintaining the system
and updating with the latest technologies require development costs. The
systems of the respective agencies need to be aligned in terms of data storage,
storage and analytics technology capabilities before making data integration.
For marriages and divorces statistics, there are four issues that have been
identified as challenges in compiling the statistics in Malaysia. The issues are
as follows:
i. The system format developed by each JAIN is different. Therefore, it
will cause the compilation of NCR data to be difficult;
ii. JAKIM has developed an online system for the registration of NCR
which is Management System Marriage Islam Malaysia (SPPIM) as the
centralized record-keeping initiatives, but it covers only six (6) states

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