Malaysia: stocked up food items MCO COVID-19 outbreak 2020

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A survey conducted by Vase.ai on Malaysian consumer patterns during the COVID-19 outbreak, 83 percent of Malaysian respondents stated that they had been stocking up eggs during the COVID-19 outbreak. Eggs remained the most stocked-up on food item amongst the majority of consumers in Malaysia during the Movement Control Order (MCO) period. Malaysia introduced the MCO on March 18 in a bid to stem the spread of COVID-19. It has been extended again to June 9.

Food items that Malaysians have been stocking up during the Movement Control Order (MCO) period during the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020

Characteristic	MCO Phase 1	MCO Phase 3
Eggs	83%	83%
Dry food items	79%	78%
Fresh food	60%	75%
Poultry/meat	65%	67%
Frozen food	63%	63%
Cooking oil	61%	62%
Bread, pastry	53%	57%
Beverages	53%	54%
Other dairy products	26%	35%
Seafood	26%	30%
Cheese	13%	18%
Alcohol	3%	3%
Cultured drinks	13%	-
Cholocates, wafer	17%	-
Others	4%	-

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Release date

May 2020

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Region

Malaysia

Survey time period

March to April, 2020

Age group

24 years and older

Method of interview

Online survey

Supplementary notes

The survey was done in two phases:

March 30, 2020: 1,085 respondents
April 21, 2020: 1,100 respondents.

Data for chocolates & wafers, cultured drinks, and others were not included in the second survey.

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