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CPS2078 Manisah Othman et al.

The importance of SUA as part of cost of living
Siti Zakiah Muhamad Isa, Manisah Othman, Nur Khairunniza Harun
Department of Statistics Malaysia

Abstract
The Supply and Utilization Accounts (SUA) for selected agriculture
commodities is a balance account comprising the elements of supply and
utilization. Supply accounts include opening stock, production and imports
while utilization accounts include exports, seeds, feeds, waste, processing,
closing stock and food. The compilation of SUA is used to calculate three
agricultural indicators of self-sufficiency ratio which explains the extent to
which the production of agricultural commodities for a country is sufficient to
meet domestic needs. While, the second indicator is the imports dependency
ratio which explains a country's dependence on imports of agricultural
commodities to meet domestic needs. Imports dependency ratio shows the
higher rates the more supply of agricultural commodities to be imported. The
third indicator is per capita consumption which refers to the amount of food
consumed by each person per year and it is measured in kilograms. These
three indicators can be used to analyze the trend of supply and utilization of
agricultural commodities.

Keywords
Supply accounts; utilization accounts; self-sufficiency ratio; domestic needs;
per capita consumption

1. Introduction
The Department of Statistics, Malaysia (DOSM) has published The Supply
and Utilization Accounts (SUA) since 2010. This coverage was expanded
starting with nine agricultural commodities (2010) to 33 as published in 2018
(Exhibit 1). Agricultural commodities selected in the compilation of SUA are
commodities listed in the National Agro-Food Policy (NAP) 2011-2020 and it
focused on food that have direct impact on consumers. However, the coverage
of the commodity depends on the availability and stability of the data for
production, import and export. Primary data sources are secondary data
obtained from international trade data and survey conducted by DOSM and
also include production data from agricultural agencies.
SUA is a balancing account that contains elements of supply and
utilization. This paper focuses on agriculture-related statistics and indicators
which is an important indicator to the national agriculture situation,

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