{"id":19778,"date":"2026-08-05T14:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T12:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=19778"},"modified":"2026-08-05T14:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T12:55:09","slug":"stats-biz-july-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=19778","title":{"rendered":"Stats Biz \u2013 July 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The construction industry in South Africa has faced numerous challenges over the years. Key contributing factors include slow economic growth, low investment, loadshedding, labour shortages, the COVID-19 pandemic and criminal activity. The recent release of the <em>Construction Industry 2024<\/em> statistical report provides a detailed update of employment and financial data for the industry. Explore construction employment, as well as other stories, in this edition of Stats Biz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/StatsBiz_July2026.pdf\">Download Stats Biz \u2013 July 2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The construction industry in South Africa has faced numerous challenges over the years. Key contributing factors include slow economic growth, low investment, loadshedding, labour shortages, the COVID-19 pandemic and criminal activity. The recent release of the Construction Industry 2024 statistical report provides a detailed update of employment and financial data for the industry. Explore construction&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=19778\" 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":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stats-biz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19780,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19778\/revisions\/19780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}