Jawapan Parlimen Mengenai Statistik Tentang Rakyat Miskin Di Malaysia Mengikut Negeri Dan Kumpulan Etnik
Monday, 03-07-2006PEMBERITAHUAN PERTANYAAN DEWAN RAKYAT
PERTANYAAN : JAWAB LISAN
DARIPADA : YB.PUAN TERESA KOK SUH SIM (SEPUTEH)
TARIKH : 3.7.2006
SOALAN:
YB.PUAN TERESA KOK SUH SIM (SEPUTEH) minta PERDANA MENTERI menyatakan jumlah rakyat miskin di Malaysia mengikut negeri dan kumpulan etnik dan apakah benar bahawa kiraan ekuiti/kekayaan negara hanya berasaskan pemilikan saham tanpa mengambilkira sumber kekayaan/pendapatan yang lain seperti pemilikan tanah, bangunan dan sumber pendapatan yang lain.
CADANGAN JAWAPAN:
Tuan Yang di-Pertua,
Bedasarkan Pendapatan Garis Kemiskinan yang baru dan perangkaan daripada Penyiasatan Pendapatan Isi Rumah terkini, tahun 2004, bilangan isi rumah miskin mengikut negeri adalah seperti berikut:
Tuan Yang di Pertua,
Bilangan isi rumah miskin mengikut kumpulan etnik pula adalah seperti berikut:
Tuan Yang di-pertua,
Pemilikan kekayaan negara adalah luas dan ianya meliputi bukan sahaja pemilikan dari segi modal saham syarikat sahaja malah juga meliputi sumber kekayaan lain seperti tabungan, tanah, bangunan dan sumber-sumber lain yng boleh digembleng dan dapat menjana pendapatan. Maklumat mengenai pemilikan ekuiti saham syarikat seperti yang disiarkan dalam dokumen rancangan pembangunan negara digunakan sebagai indikator umum untuk memberi pemilikan kekayaan negara mengikut kumpulan etnik. Walau bagaimanapun, dokumen Rancangan Malaysia Kesembilan juga menyiarkan maklumat mengenai pemilikan bangunan komersial di bandar-bandar utama.
The total isi rumah miskin above is 311,300; less than 1% of our 20 million plus population. That’s not realistic – too low.
It could be either the threshold for hardcore poor had not been ajusted to reflect more recent increase in cost of living and it seems overwhelmingly focused bumiputra. I think many Indians are in dire financial straits and I really hope they get the help they deserve.
Ok, if the above is correct, then only less than 1% of the population is poor hence we need to shift from race based approach in combating poor to merit based. The population in the more than 99%, who are not poor and working, can easily subsidise these 300K people via distribution of tax money.
Either way, the statistic looks too inaccurate. Certain deviation can be accepted but the above just do not stand up to simple scrutiny.
Actually I have been wondering. We also say that our cost of living here is cheaper than developed countries, things like toll, electricity, cars and whatever. Only places like Sahara desert is cheaper and all that crap.
can the government do ratios such as:
1) per capita income vs cost of living (Malaysia vs Other countries)
:- car price/ave salary;house price/ave salary – and need to breakup according to states.
2) inflation trend for individual items:- houses, transport costs, food; don’t mix up with other controlled price items
As long as we split the statistics into relevant blocks then we can see some interesting trend.
Comment by lee wee tak_ — Tuesday, 04-07-2006 @ 09: 37.54