IMPROVING LIVES THROUGH DATA ECOSYSTEMS

The results of the LCS 2008/2009 indicate that during the period September 2008 to August 2009, individual households in South Africa spent approximately R71 910 on average per annum. However, this amount (R71 910) excluded items such as free water, free electricity, educational bursaries, housing subsidies and other subsidies by the employer, etc. The average annual household expenditure on all these items, referred to as expenditure-in-kind/income-in-kind, amounted to R2 381 during the survey period.
Nationally, most of the households