Malaysia Population Research Hub

Family

To facilitate interpretation of family wellbeing, FWBI 2016 has obtained the indicator scores which then produce a domain and index score as follows:

Unaffordable Housing Price. The country has gone through a rapid urbanization process where the percentage of urban population has increased...

To better understand family wellbeing in the standpoint of certain characteristics, FWBI 2016 has obtained the indicator scores according to selected characteristics as follows:

Family Well-Being Index

Orem (1985) suggested that well-being is a term used to describe an individual’s perception of their lives. Well-being refers...

Families in this country are not able to achieve full aspiration on the number of children desired by a family. 

Globally, family structures have changed dramatically over the last 50 years, as each generation of families reflect the socio-economic requirements and norms of their time.