Agencies such as the Inland Revenue Board (IRB) and the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) may soon be compelled to provide more detailed information to the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM).

This possibility has been raised with the Statistics Act 1965 being reviewed to give the department’s chief statistician more power.

“We are going for the empowerment of DOSM in terms of data coordination because the Act is actually quite old. That’s why we’d have to look at a total review of the Act,” DOSM’s chief statistician Mohd Uzir Mahidin said today...