{"id":5537,"date":"2015-10-05T12:38:52","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T10:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=5537"},"modified":"2015-10-05T12:39:06","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T10:39:06","slug":"in-focus-the-electricity-gas-and-water-supply-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=5537","title":{"rendered":"In focus: the electricity, gas and water supply industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Stats SA recently released results of its large sample survey covering the electricity, gas and water supply industry in South Africa, for the year 2013. The report provides information on the size, nature and structure of the industry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Also included in the report is information on employment, trading income, expenditure, profit or loss, inventories, sales and services, purchases and communication technology usage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The infographic below shows that the electricity, gas and water supply industry contributes 3,7% to economic production (value added) in the country, and it employs 0,9% of the national workforce. Over a third of electricity produced by the industry is sold to redistributors and 91% of electricity is generated from coal<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Electricity_-Infographic_v05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5544\" alt=\"Electricity_ Infographic_v05\" src=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Electricity_-Infographic_v05-300x184.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Electricity_-Infographic_v05-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Electricity_-Infographic_v05-1024x629.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Electricity_-Infographic_v05-100x61.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Download the complete report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/publications\/Report-41-01-02\/Report-41-01-022013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Download the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Gross domestic product (GDP) 3<\/span><sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">rd<\/span><\/sup><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> quarter 2014<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> release <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/publications\/P0441\/P04413rdQuarter2014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Download the <i>Labour market dynamics, 2014<\/i> release <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/publications\/Report-02-11-02\/Report-02-11-022014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stats SA recently released results of its large sample survey covering the electricity, gas and water supply industry in South Africa, for the year 2013. The report provides information on the size, nature and structure of the industry. Also included in the report is information on employment, trading income, expenditure, profit or loss, inventories, sales&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=5537\" 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":9,"featured_media":5552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy-data-stories","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5537","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5537"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5591,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5537\/revisions\/5591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}