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Department of Statistics Malaysia (data.gov.my Data Catalogue)

Department of Statistics Malaysia · Monthly CPI releases mid-month (cpi_headline last_updated 2026-07-17); monthly LFS about six weeks after the reference month; quarterly GDP mid-quarter; annual population yearly. Honest note: the annual LFS catalogues update late or have stalled — lfs_year last updated 2024-02-09 with a next_update stamp of 2025-02-09 that was already long past as of 2026-07-31.

License: cc-by-4.0 · official terms. Attribution text and per-series license flags ride in every API envelope.

Source API docs

Quickstart

Latest observations, with provenance and citation on every value:

curl "https://starwell.dev/api/starwell/v1/sources/dosm-malaysia-datagovmy/series/lfs_year_sex:male:p_rate/observations?latest=12"

A computed, cited answer from this source:

curl -X POST "https://starwell.dev/api/starwell/v1/answer" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer dlk_live_YOUR_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"question": "What is the latest Labour force participation rate, male, Malaysia?", "source": "dosm-malaysia-datagovmy"}'

Data reads need no key; answers do. Keys are free at /account; a keyless sample lives at GET /api/starwell/v1/answer/demo.

As MCP tools in Claude, Cursor, or any agent framework:

claude mcp add --transport http starwell https://starwell.dev/api/starwell/mcp

Data series