{"id":9751,"date":"2017-04-06T16:33:39","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T14:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=9751"},"modified":"2017-04-06T16:35:50","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T14:35:50","slug":"media-advisory-quarterly-employment-statistics-q4-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=9751","title":{"rendered":"Media advisory: Quarterly Employment Statistics Q4 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>MEDIA ADVISORY\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a06 April 2017<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Formal sector employment statistics for the fourth quarter of 2016 to be released on Friday, 7 April 2017 on the Stats SA website<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Statistics South Africa will tomorrow (Friday, 7 April 2017) release the <i>Quarterly Employment Statistics<\/i> (QES) for the fourth quarter of 2016 on its website (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\">www.statssa.gov.za<\/a>). The QES measures changes in employment across all industries in the formal sector of the economy. It collects data from value-added tax (VAT)-registered businesses (excluding agriculture).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The survey also provides earnings data (such as salaries, wages, overtime and bonuses) by industry, and the change in average earning received by employees in the formal sector of the economy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>The QES will be released on the web as follows:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Date:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Friday, 07 April 2017<\/p>\n<p>Time: 10H30<\/p>\n<p><b>Website link<\/b>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?page_id=1854&amp;PPN=P0277\">https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?page_id=1854&amp;PPN=P0277<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>For media enquiries contact:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Trevor Oosterwyk<\/p>\n<p>Head of Communications<\/p>\n<p>Tel: 012 310 4687<\/p>\n<p>Cell: 082 908 9104<\/p>\n<p>Email: TrevorO@statssa.gov.za<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEDIA ADVISORY\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a06 April 2017 &nbsp; Formal sector employment statistics for the fourth quarter of 2016 to be released on Friday, 7 April 2017 on the Stats SA website &nbsp; Statistics South Africa will tomorrow (Friday, 7 April 2017) release the Quarterly Employment Statistics (QES) for the fourth quarter of 2016 on its website (www.statssa.gov.za).&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=9751\" 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":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,50,45,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry","category-invitation","category-press-statements","category-work-and-labour-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9751","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=9751"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9753,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9751\/revisions\/9753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}