IMPROVING LIVES THROUGH DATA ECOSYSTEMS

Income

The total income for the construction industry in 2011 was R267 014 million. The largest contributor to the total income was `construction of civil engineering structures` (R104 670 million or 39%), followed by `construction of buildings` (R68 553 million or 26%), `other building installation` (R20 402 million or 7%), and `electrical contractors` (R15 234 million or 6%) (Figure 1 and Table 3, page 9 of Report No. 50-02-01 (2011)).

Expenditure

Expenditure in the construction industry in 2011 amounted to R256 070 million. The largest contributor to total expenditure was `purchases` (R110 743 million or 43%), followed by `payments to construction sub-contractors` (R53 672 million or 21%), `salaries and wages` (R48 111 million or 19%) and `depreciation` (R6 859 million or 3%)  (Figure 5 and Table 6, page 12-13 of Report No. 50-02-01 (2011)).

Employment

The total number of persons employed in the construction industry at the end of June 2011 was 483 651. `Construction of civil engineering structures` employed the largest number of persons (152 337 or 31%), followed by `construction of buildings` (120 311 or 25%), `electrical contractors` (39 873 or 8%), and `other building completion` (33 259 or 7%) (Figure 7 and Table 11, page 18 of Report No. 50-02-01 (2011)).

The proportion of females out of the total persons employed in the construction industry at the end of June 2011 was 11%. The sector with the highest proportion of females employed was `electrical contractors` (15%) (Figure 8 and Table 11,
page 18 of Report No. 50-02-01 (2011)).

Large enterprises employed the highest number of persons (202 562 or 42%) in the construction industry at the end of June 2011. Medium enterprises employed 135 213 persons (or 28%) and small and micro enterprises employed 145 876 persons (or 30%) (Figure 9 and Table 13, page 20 of Report No. 50-02-01 (2011)).