Media invite: Statistician-General to release the Community Survey 2016, Agricultural Households report
Media advisory 25 January 2016 The Statistician-General of South Africa, Dr Pali Lehohla, will release the read more »
Appreciating scale: business turnover in R200 notes
The South African formal business sector generated R2,17 trillion in turnover in the third quarter of 2016. To put this into perspective, imagine if you drew this amount in R200 bills and went about giving away a bill every second. It would take 344 years to get rid of all the bills in this way! read more »
UN World Data Forum wraps up
PRESS RELEASE UN World Data Forum wraps up with launch of Cape Town Global Action Plan for Sustainable Development Data United Arab Emirates selected to host next Forum (Cape Town, 18 January) — The inaugural United Nations World Data Forum is concluding today with the launch of a global plan for better data read more »
Media Invite: Living Conditions Survey /New weights CPI basket
MEDIA ADVISORY 17 January 2017 Release of the Living Conditions Survey and the new weights for the Consumer Price Index (CPI) Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) will release the results of the Living Conditions Survey (LCS) 2014/2015 and the new weights for the Consumer Price Index (CPI) on Friday, 27 January 2017 at read more »
THE UNITED NATIONS WORLD DATA FORUM: THE CONVERSATION CONTINUES
The United Nation World Data Forum Secretariat announced the launch of the “Virtual UN World Data Forum” at http://bit.ly/2jyL4aP. This is a platform that will allow participants of the first UN World Data Forum, as well as other members of the global data and statistics community, to carry forward the conversations around innovative data solutions read more »
Media alert: Stats SA warns the public about telephone scam
Media alert 21 December 2016 It has recently come to Statistics South Africa’s attention that individuals posing as Stats SA officials have been calling people, asking for their personal information such as identity numbers. Stats SA does not request identity numbers from respondents when conducting surveys. Whereas we may use telephone interviews to collect read more »
Municipal spending in the third quarter
Municipalities in South Africa spent a total of R73,1 billion during the September quarter of 2016. Stats SA’s latest Quarterly Financial Statistics of Municipalities report1 provides an overview of how this money was spent. More than half of municipal expenditure during the September 2016 quarter was on two items: electricity (28,0%) and employee-related costs (27,8%). read more »
Tourism: jobs, the economy and spending
Despite a drop in the number of tourists visiting South Africa, the tourism industry continued to create jobs in 2015. Stats SA’s latest release of its Tourism Satellite Account for South Africa report provides an overview of tourism’s contribution in terms of employment, its impact on the gross domestic product (GDP) and spending. The number read more »