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misleading implications to the community. This will jeopardize DOSM’s image
as the main national data producer. Hence, allowing access on the microdata
will avoid the possibility of misinterpreting the aggregated data or the
released statistics if the research community makes use of the data and come
out with a high quality analysis and various statistical reports to support the
official statistics.

2. Current Practice at DOSM
The demand or data request is increasing every single day. DOSM
disseminate the microdata based on the demand and has been disseminating
the microdata via various platforms over the years. There are a lot of benefit
of the microdata dissemination such as reducing the duplication of data
collection activities and it will broaden the use of existing data. However data
dissemination is also entails risks and challenges.
The main challenge is disclosure risk. As a data disseminator, it is DOSM
priority to prevent any disclosures of identities or sensitive information to the
public. If this happen, DOSM may lose the trust from the public and the most
serious consequence is violation of the statistics act.
2.1 Microdata in DOSM
Microdata is the unpublished data and to obtain the microdata, public
or user have two options. The first one, public or user should request and
apply to DOSM via e-Statistics. Secondly, if the user interested to have the
feel and look of the microdata, they may come to DOSM headquartes to
access it via one of our data dissemination sub-product; StatsDW MyLab.
StatsDW is DOSM datawarehouse and there are 3 external modules and
2 internal modules. StatsDW MyLab is the internal module and only can
be access in DOSM. Currently we have 215 of datasets in our StatsDW
comprises of 172 Economic datasets, 31 Social datasets and 12
Compilation datasets.
2.2 Core Principles of Microdata Dissemination
The National Statistics Offices of other countries have their own
guideline and principles in the dissemination of microdata. Each NSO has
different approach and practice in establishing the key principles it should
comply to specifically in ensuring the safety and security of microdata. As
for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
(OECD), the core principles defined in the microdata dissemination are as
follows:

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