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Open data, placed in context — how Southeast Asia is changing.

The Comparison Malaysia Isn’t Part Of
5 min
labour market
malaysia
southeast asia
education
DOSM has tracked skill-related underemployment (SRU); tertiary-educated workers stuck in semi-skilled or low-skilled jobs, every quarter since 2020. It’s a solid, regularly…
Sep 2, 2026

Graduate Underemployment: Nine States, Not Sixteen
5 min
labour market
malaysia
education
Skill-related underemployment (SRU) counts tertiary-educated workers stuck in semi-skilled or low-skilled jobs. Nationally, it’s a big number: 2.05 million people, or 35.6%…
Aug 25, 2026

Women Out-Enrol Men in Malaysian Higher Ed, and Have for Over a Decade. The Labour Market Still Hasn’t Caught Up.
6 min
labour market
malaysia
gender
education
For over a decade, Malaysian women have out-enrolled men in higher education. Public universities have run roughly 60/40 in women’s favour since at least the early 2010s.…
Aug 24, 2026

A column swap in DOSM’s own open data
4 min
methodology
data quality
malaysia

While building the youth unemployment piece, two columns in DOSM’s published Parquet file turned out to be swapped relative to their own metadata. Here’s how we caught it.

Aug 21, 2026

Youth unemployment vs. headline unemployment in Malaysia
3 min
labour market
malaysia

Malaysia’s youth unemployment rate has sat above 10% while the headline rate holds near 3%. What does the ratio between them actually look like over time?

Aug 20, 2026

Hello, This Is The Haddock Site
1 min
news
Hello, and welcome to The Haddock Site.
Aug 11, 2026
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