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Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM)Values: registered marriages · bride residenceIN BRIEF
POPULATION · MARRIAGE · STATES
Where are Malaysia's registered marriages concentrated?
Compare registered marriages across states using the bride's usual residence, without double-counting the separate groom-residence series.
SHOW ME THE DATA2017 → 2022 · registered marriages · bride residence
VIEW DATA ASSame source · different visual lens
POPULATION · MARRIAGE · STATES
Where are Malaysia's registered marriages concentrated?
2017
registered marriages · bride residence
2Johor27.3K
7Kedah13.6K
4Kelantan17.3K
13Melaka6.7K
12Negeri Sembilan8.8K
8Pahang12.8K
3Perak18.7K
14Perlis2.1K
11Pulau Pinang9.5K
6Sabah14.5K
5Sarawak15.0K
1Selangor34.9K
9Terengganu11.6K
10W.P. Kuala Lumpur9.9K
15W.P. Labuan501
16W.P. Putrajaya438
201720172022
Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM)Values: registered marriages · bride residenceSourceDepartment of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) ↗2023-11-23HIGH CONFIDENCE
Method & notes
This view keeps one consistent denominator: bride residence. It avoids the common mistake of adding bride and groom state rows together.
METHOD & LIMITATIONSHow the numbers were calculated
PulseKita materializes DOSM's Annual Marriages by State dataset and uses only female rows for the state ranking because the source classifies female rows by the bride's residence and male rows by the groom's residence. Those two series describe the same marriages from different residence perspectives and are never added together.
- State classification follows the residence of the bride for female rows and the groom for male rows. Male and female residence series are kept separate and must not be added together because that would double-count marriages.
- The ranking uses bride residence consistently across every frame.
- The groom-residence series remains in the derived dataset for separate analysis and is not added to bride-residence counts.
Evidence trail
EVIDENCE CHAINtransformation inherited from methodology
- 1Declared sourceAnnual Marriages by State
- 2TransformationPulseKita materializes DOSM's Annual Marriages by State dataset and uses only female rows for the state ranking because the source classifies female rows by the bride's residence and male rows by the groom's residence. Those two series describe the same marriages from different residence perspectives and are never added together.
- 3Published visualAnimated race
Source
HIGH CONFIDENCEofficial primary
COVERAGE2017 → 2022
UNITregistered marriages · bride residence
SOURCEofficial publication
UPDATED2023-11-23
