Eight million households to be interviewed for census

PETALING JAYA: The government will be asking Malaysia’s eight million households for detailed information ranging from our age to income as it conducts its most extensive national census exercise next year.

With Malaysians increasingly concerned about how the government should spend public money amid rising worries about cost of living, jobs, affordable housing and other bread-and-butter issues, the data gathered will guide the government’s policies and programmes to address these matters.