Transparency & Provenance
Open Data Standards
How to read our numbers.
State of Sabah is an independent public-data project. Every figure, map boundary, and environmental reading is traceable to primary institutional documents, official statistical releases, or operational sensor feeds.
1. Data Provenance Tiers
Every tile and metric card on the platform carries a strict classification badge indicating how recently and through what channel the figure was captured.
Read directly from operational meteorological, hydrological, or satellite telemetry feeds within the last few hours.
The most recent official release from DOSM, MPOB, or Sabah state agencies. Real and verified, published on their scheduled reporting cycles.
A static spatial, topographical, or ecological figure extracted from peer-reviewed academic literature or gazetted forestry enactments.
Seasonal meteorological or economic projections (such as El Niño precipitation anomalies) accompanied by explicit confidence intervals.
2. Primary Institutional Sources
Our core baseline datasets are anchored across several official repositories:
- OpenDOSM (Department of Statistics Malaysia): Population projections across Sabah's 27 districts, Consumer Price Index (CPI), Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by State, and Household Income Surveys (HIS).
- MetMalaysia (Malaysian Meteorological Department): Reference station temperature normals, rainfall anomalies, and regional ENSO seasonal outlooks.
- MPOB (Malaysian Palm Oil Board): Monthly crude palm oil (CPO) production volumes, mill throughput statistics, and regional state share metrics.
- Sabah Forestry Department & DID: Totally Protected Areas (TPA) inventories, forest reserve classifications (Class I to VII), and river basin catchment boundaries.
3. Geospatial & Cartographic Standards
District boundary vector data is rendered via client-side D3 projections (`d3-geo` / `geoMercator`) fitted to standardized GeoJSON topologies. Topographical calculations and elevation gradients follow standardized geographic survey data across Sabah's five administrative divisions.