MEDIA ADVISORY                                                                                                                20 February 2020 Statistician-General to release the ‘Education Series Volume VI: Education and Labour Market Outcomes in South Africa. The Statistician-General, of South Africa, Mr Risenga Maluleke, will   read more »

February 2020 Professor David Everatt, Chairperson, on behalf of the South African Statistics Council David.everatt@wits.ac.za,  0834559466 Stats SA is a globally recognised centre of excellence for producing official statistics. Stats SA is the only source of official statistics in South Africa. It has both kept in touch with or led best practice, notably in developing   read more »

Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) is conducting the National Household Travel Survey 2020 (NHTS 2020) in conjunction with the National Department of Transport (NDoT) from January 2020 until March 2020. The aim of the NHTS 2020 is to understand the transport needs and transport behaviour of households and individuals, assess attitudes towards transport services and   read more »

Exactly a week after delegates closed the 26th Investing in African Mining Indaba, Stats SA released data on the performance of the mining industry in 2019. The level of production was 1,3% lower in 2019 than 2018, which in turn was 2,1% lower than 2017. Despite a positive showing from both copper and manganese, a   read more »

MEDIA RELEASE                                                                                                   11 February 2020                                        Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) – Q4:2019 The results of the Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) for the fourth quarter of 2019 indicate that the official unemployment rate remained unchanged (29,1%) compared to   read more »

MEDIA ADVISORY                                                                   06 February 2020 Statistics South Africa to release the Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS), 4th Quarter 2019 Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) will release the results of the Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) for the 4th quarter of 2019 at a media briefing to be held on Tuesday,11 February 2020 in Pretoria. The   read more »

South Africa is known as one of the most unequal countries in the world, reporting a per-capita expenditure Gini coefficient of 0,67 in 2006, dropping to 0,65 in 2015. This is according to the Inequality Trends in South Africa report released by Stats SA. According to the Palma ratio, the top 10% of the population   read more »

Stats Biz kicks off 2020 with a look at the latest inflation figures. Annual consumer inflation edged up to 4,0% in December from November’s 3,6%. Bread and cereal prices continue to place pressure on overall food inflation, increasing by 8,0%, which was unchanged from November. Explore inflation, as well as other stories, in this edition   read more »

MEDIA RELEASE                                                                                                                                                     29  January  2020                                                              Stats SA’s NHTS   read more »

Travel is a necessity South Africans travel from their homes to places of work, education, healthcare, for business, for leisure and social activities daily. Travel is a necessity. The increase in urbanisation and population numbers changes the demand for urban infrastructure and transport services. But, how can we know and understand transport needs and behaviour   read more »