MEDIA ADVISORY   For Immediate Release   26 February 2016                        Contact: Lesedi Dibakwane 0828057088                  lesedid@statssa.gov.za   Launch of Community Survey (CS) 2016   On Monday 29 February 2016, Minister in the Presidency honourable Jeff Radebe will, together with the Statistician-General, Dr Pali Lehohla, launch the Community Survey 2016 (CS) in Pretoria. The CS   read more »

Media Invite                                                                                                                                                                     19 February 2016   Stats SA releases the Non -Motorised transport report The Statistician-General of South Africa, Dr Pali Lehohla, will release a report on the Non- Motorised transport (NMT) report at a media briefing to be held on Thursday, 25 February 2016. This report is an in-depth analysis of the National Household   read more »

MEDIA INVITE                                                                                                                                                             19 February 2016 Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) for the Forth Quarter (Q4) of 2015 The Statistician-General, Dr Pali Lehohla, will release the results of the Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) for the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2015 on Thursday, 25th February 2016.   The report will be released as follows: Date        read more »

The Statistician-General regrets to announce a delay in the release of the fourth quarter report of the Quarterly Labour Force Survey. The release, which was scheduled for Tuesday the 9th of February has been postponed to the 25th of February for the following reasons. The QLFS has run on a redesigned Master Sample for a   read more »

“Our job is only to hold up the mirror – to tell and show the public what has happened.” Walter Cronkite The Statistician-General for South Africa, Dr Pali Lehohla, today handed over the results of the 2015 KwaZulu-Natal Citizen Satisfaction Survey (CSS) to the Premier of KwaZulu-Natal, the honourable Mr Edward Mchunu.  Handing over the   read more »

Data users, have your say! As an organisation we are responsible for disseminating official statistics to a wide range of data users. Statistics are produced and disseminated in the form of products and services to meet user needs.  The survey prompts users to rate the importance and satisfaction of attributes of the following dissemination platforms:   read more »

15 January 2016 In order to improve navigation on the home page of Statistics South Africa’s (Stats SA) website, the following changes will be done to the navigation scheme for the theme pages. Changes to theme page navigation Theme pages, which can be accessed from the Explore section on the front page of the website,   read more »

27 November 2015 Media Invite Stats SA to release various population statistics at the 7th African Population Conference, Pretoria Statistics South Africa will release a number of population-related statistics and monograph reports during the third day of the UASP’s 7th African Population Conference which will be held in Pretoria from 30 November until 4 December   read more »

01 December 2015 Media Release Taxis most used mode of public transport Taxis are the commonly used mode of public transport in South Africa with just more than half (51,0%) of the households that use public transport (76,7%) relying on them, followed by busses (18,1%) and trains (7,6%). This was highlighted in the Measuring household   read more »

01 December 2015 Media Release Housebreaking on the rise as robbery drops South African households increasingly feel that the levels of violent and property crimes are increasing and this makes it unsafe to walk in parks or even allow their children to play freely in their neighbourhoods, this is according to the results of the   read more »