![Children and the poor are most affected since COVID pandemic](https://www.statssa.gov.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/ghs5-64x64.jpg)
Children and the poor are most affected since COVID pandemic
For children, the ongoing COVID‑19 pandemic has significantly impacted the life they once knew. According to a recent report, the General Household Survey, 2020 which was released by Statistics South Africa, COVID-19 has had a distinct impact on the nature of child care arrangements for children aged 0–4 years in 2020. The percentage of children read more »
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Realizing women’s rights for an equal future on Women’s Day
There is no doubt that South Africa has made significant progress towards achieving gender equality since 1956, when 20 000 women marched to the Union Buildings on 9 August in protest against the extension of Pass Laws to women. Activists rebelled against a patriarchal system designed to control women and reduce them to submissive beings read more »
Postponement Notice: Delayed release of statistical publications
Postponement Notice: Delayed release of statistical publications  For immediate release                                                                         02 August 2021  Methodology changes due to COVID-19 result in delayed release of statistical publications Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) read more »
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Families and parents are key to well-being of children
Did you know that in South Africa, about one-fifth (21,3%) of children aged 17 years and less, did not live with their parents? It may also surprise you to hear that this is against the international norm where the majority of children under 18 live with both their parents.1 However, in South Africa, children are read more »
Frame Update Project
Collection of contact details In March 2020, in the interest of respondent and staff safety, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) took a decision to stop all face-to-face fieldwork operations, and collect data for household surveys telephonically. Regular surveys that have been affected by this decision were the Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS), which gives us read more »
Stats SA returns to field
More than a year after Stats SA suspended face-to-face data collection due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Stats SA Survey Officers (SOs) will return to the field to collect contact details from households that have been selected to participate in one of our household surveys. “We have updated our sample, and need to collect contact details read more »
![Municipalities: service delivery, bucket toilets and gender representation](https://www.statssa.gov.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/gender-1-64x64.jpg)
Municipalities: service delivery, bucket toilets and gender representation
There are two sides to every coin. Service delivery in South Africa is often measured from the demand side, via household surveys and the Population Census. What you might not know about is that data also exist for the supply side, collected from those who provide services. Every year Stats SA asks municipalities to provide read more »
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Measuring the progress of development in SA
The General Household Survey, 2019, which tracks the progress of development and identifies persistent service delivery gaps in South Africa, was recently released by Statistics South Africa. Now in its eighteenth year, the survey has yielded a rich set of information across a wide variety of fields such as education, health, disability, social security, housing, read more »
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Loss of income resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic may lead to higher levels of food insecurity SA
Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) has embarked on a series of three online web-based surveys to measure the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on individuals in the country to assist government and other stakeholders in their response to the crisis. The second round of the survey (Wave 2) focused on employment, income and hunger-related issues read more »
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SA’s Millennials have made substantial strides in education outcomes
It is often said that each generation should be better off than their parents. In South Africa, generational changes have largely been impacted by important political changes that affected the choices available to Generation X’ers and Millennials in terms of their educational and labour market participations. According to a recent report, Education and Labour Market read more »