Estimates of personal savings functions for West Malaysia based on 1957-58 household budget survey data

This paper estimates personal savings functions for West Malaysia from the data collected in the 1957-58 Household Budget Survey by the Department of Statistics. Only the simple Keynesian functions are estimated. These are fitted to the data for all sample households as well as for these household...

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Main Authors: Shahrum Hashim, Abdul Halim Ismail
Format: Article
Published: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 1974
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/4041/
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Summary:This paper estimates personal savings functions for West Malaysia from the data collected in the 1957-58 Household Budget Survey by the Department of Statistics. Only the simple Keynesian functions are estimated. These are fitted to the data for all sample households as well as for these households stratified into the urban and the rural sectors and the Malay, Chinese and Indian ethnic groups.