PETALING JAYA: Jeli MP Zahari Kechik, who is from Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (Bersatu), has broken ranks to declare his support for Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
KUALA LUMPUR: Any numbers referring to poverty in the country are based only on official statistics from the Department of Statistics Malaysia , says Rafizi Ramli.
“The two databases began operating in 2007 until now, thus causing two sets of running numbers. Hence, any decision on poverty numbers is made referring to the official statistics,” he told the Dewan Rakyat on Wednesday . “When there are challenges in filtering the figures, similar situations will persist. Hence, we agreed that the country’s poverty rate should be based on official statistics reports,” he said.
Datuk Seri Shahidan Kassim then asked what would happen to those who were not listed in the hardcore poor category based on DOSM statistics despite being listed as such in the eKasih database.
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