MALAYSIAN FAMILY LIFE SURVEY : DESCRIPTIONS OF SAMPLE COMMUNITIES

It includes maps and verbal descriptions of the 52 primary sampling units in the sample. The descriptions are based on interviews with knowledgeable local officials and residents and on personal observations, all made in 1976 and 1977. An important part of the survey has been documentation of community and public program characteristics that might affect people"s economic and demographic behavior. Working with a list of specific questions and more general areas of interest, the author attempts to describe each Primary Sampling Unit (PSU) in detail. Both current characteristics and recent historical data are of interest. Background information about Peninsular Malaysia and the definition of a PSU are presented. PSU descriptions are organized in three sections: main market centers, other urban towns, and rural. Forty-nine of these PSU"s were selected using probability sampling methods and constitute a random sample of the 6125 PSU"s in Peninsular Malaysia