Census Archives

Date Documents
News:
12 December 2011 CENSUS 2011 Data-Processing
20 Sepember 2011 STATEMENT TO PARLIAMENT ON CENSUS 2011
19 Sepember 2011 Stats SA meets Faith Based Organisations on Census 2011
19 Sepember 2011 CONTRALESA partners with Census 2011
19 Sepember 2011 Census 2011 : What to Expect ? What to do? (jpg 780KB)
8 Sepember 2011 Importance of Census
1 Sepember 2011 Everything you need to know about Listing
25 August 2011 Statement by President Jacob Zuma
23 August 2011 50 Days Media pack (download zip 8197KB)
05 July 2011 Census 2011 Fact Box
03 July 2011 Census depends on all people – Business Report Article
30 June 2011 Stand up and be counted!
The BigCount launch
Eastern Cape launch
Limpopo launch
Free State launch
Mpumalanga launch
Northern Cape launch
Documents :
20 May 2011 Census Information Guide (pdf 3.9 MB) 
10 October 2010 Census_2011_Undercount Strategies (pdf 333KB)
10 October 2010 Population_Census_2011_Strategy (pdf 1008KB)
Older Documents :
Statistics South Africa will be conducting user consultations in 2008, to determine the data items which will be collected via the Census 2011 questionnaire. The following documents outline the background and provide information on the various workshop dates.
26 March 2008 Census 2011 Questionnaire Consultations Workshops   (PDF 72KB)
15 January 2008 Core Questions and their uses (download zip 112KB)
Statistics South Africa has developed a comprehensive research programme which aims at further developing methodologies and identifying questions that need to be asked in Census 2011. The following reports are available.
November 2007 Report on Census Content Research Study: Mortality Schedule: November 2007 PDF 494KB
November 2007 Census 2011 Strategic Plan – Research and Methodology PDF 661KB
February 2007 Report on Census Content Research Study: Disability Schedule: February 2007 PDF 533KB
November 2006 Report on Census Content Research Study: Disability Schedule: November 2006 PDF 463KB
March 2005 Report on Census Publicity Research Study: February/March 2005 PDF 275KB
February 2005 Report on Census Content Research Study: Employment Status Schedule: January/February 2005 PDF 438KB
November 2004 Report on Census Publicity Research Study: November 2004 PDF 587KB