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People nowadays believe that the government is one of the more
trustworthy data collectors and place their confidence in the security of the
information regarding their private activities (Rainie and Duggan, 2015). The
operational design of MyCTP towards modernization through a new ICTbased
framework aligned with Malaysia National Development Strategy (MyNDS)
outlined in the 11th Malaysia Plan of delivering high-performance, high
impact and cost-effective outcomes. Besides, examining France’s experience
after the first decade of the rolling census, (Durr and Clanch´e, 2013) note that
costs have stabilized across the years but have increased proportionally to the
population as the data processing workload.
Furthermore, the role of MyCTP is also to facilitate national and
international purposes through the 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development
which places increasing demand for expanded data collection. MyCTP also has
been set up to meet the best practices as other countries such as United States
of America (USA) through 2020 Census Transition Plan, United Kingdom (UK)
through Census Transformation Programme and Canada through The 2016
Census Strategy Project.
The main objective of MyCTP is to transform the implementation of Census
2020 towards the use of ICT in order to produce quality and timely statistics.
It is also to introduce modernisation in census activities to be more efficient
and cost-effective as well as to enhance the potential of the Department of
Statistics Malaysia through long-term investments. Another objective of
MyCTP is to increase the use of administrative data in the Census 2020 by
integrating census data, administrative data and surveys into integrated
databases. Lastly, it is aimed to provide facilities for a self-response mode of
enumeration in order to increase the confidence of respondents in providing
information including security of data.

2. Methodology
The six elements in MyCTP will help to overcome the challenges by
instituting a transformation program that aspires to ensure a thorough and
efficient census management system. Transformation program designed to
empower the implementation of Malaysia Population and Housing Census
2020, on top of establishing a basic framework for continuous improvement
of population and housing data collection system of Malaysians in the future.
Similar census transformation programmes are also implemented by other
countries. The scope of transformation implemented varies according to their
respective aspirations, as well as social and geopolitical climates.
DOSM developed two systems which are Malaysia Integrated Population
Census System (MyIPCS) and Malaysia Statistics Ubiquitous Learning (MySUL)
as a part of initiatives to materialise MyCTP. MySUL is a platform for online
learning and management of training materials for prior, current and post-

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