{"id":332,"date":"2013-05-24T08:35:25","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T08:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta2.statssa.gov.za\/?page_id=332"},"modified":"2024-10-21T11:03:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T09:03:41","slug":"statistics_council","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?page_id=332","title":{"rendered":"Statistics council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Statistics Council is appointed in terms of the Statistics Act (6 of 1999). The role of the council is to advise the Minister and the Statistician-General on any issue concerned with the production and use of official statistics. This includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Strategic advice on statistical policy and priorities<\/li>\n<li>Technical advice, in general or on specific statistical data collections and methodological issues<\/li>\n<li>Coordination of statistical activities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A new council was appointed in 2024 with Dr Nompumelelo Mbele as chairperson.<\/p>\n<div id=\"GroupWiseSection_1729499038000_TracyD@statssa.gov.za_39D874E00DC70000B5AB0000C027C1E9_\" class=\"GroupWiseMessageBody active\">\n<div>\n<div id=\"GroupWiseSection_1729499038000_TracyD@statssa.gov.za_39D874E00DC70000B5AB0000C027C1E9_\" class=\"GroupWiseMessageBody active\">\n<div>For more information on the Statistics Council, please click <a href=\"https:\/\/council.statssa.gov.za\/\">here<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Statistics Council is appointed in terms of the Statistics Act (6 of 1999). The role of the council is to advise the Minister and the Statistician-General on any issue concerned with the production and use of official statistics. This includes: Strategic advice on statistical policy and priorities Technical advice, in general or on specific&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?page_id=332\" class=\"btn btn-mini btn-info pull-right\" style=\"margin:10px 30px;\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1228,"parent":627,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-332","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17715,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/332\/revisions\/17715"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}