How important is your tax money?
With the income tax return deadline looming, you might be wondering how important your tax contributions have been. A recent report by Stats SA provides an answer. The South African government earned R1,22 trillion in income during the 2014/15 fiscal year, according to Stats SA’s latest Financial statistics of consolidated general government report1. If this read more »
Media release: Stats SA partners with the Department of Home Affairs for the digitisation of births and deaths registration
MEDIA RELEASE 23 November 2016 Digitisation of Births and Deaths Registration The use of technology by government will be given a major boost when the Department of Home Affairs and Statistics South Africa consolidate their resources for accelerated and efficient service delivery. The Minister of Home Affairs, Honourable Malusi Gigaba, together with the Statistician-General of read more »
Media Release 23 November 2016 GHS Series Volume VIII: Water read more »
Tuition fee trends over time: what do the data show?
In a previous article, Stats SA outlined the importance of tuition fees – as a portion of total income – to the financial security of higher education institutions (HEIs)1 for the 2015 financial year. In this article, we provide a 10-year perspective of tuition fees to assess the significance of this source of HEI income. read more »
Media Release QLFS Q3 2016
MEDIA RELEASE 22 November 2016 Quarterly Labour Force Survey – QLFS Q3:2016 The results of the Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) for the third quarter of 2016 released by Statistics South Africa today, indicate that employment grew by 288 000 after two successive quarterly declines. However, the growth in employment was offset by the increase read more »
Media advisory: Minister Gigaba and Statistician-General Lehohla to brief the media on partnership between the Department of Home Affairs and Statistics South Africa aimed at improving service delivery
Media advisory 18 November 2016 Home Affairs partners with Stats SA for the digitisation of South Africa’s civil records for improved service delivery The Minister of Home Affairs, Honourable Malusi Gigaba, together with the Statistician-General of South Africa, Dr Pali Lehohla, will launch a project on the digitisation of Home Affairs civil records on read more »
Media Advisory: GDP November 2016
Media announcement 18 November 2016 Change in scheduled time for the release of GDP estimates The publication of third quarter 2016 GDP estimates scheduled for the 6th December 2016 has been brought forward to 9:30 instead of 11:30 on the same day. Similar to previous occasions there will be a 30-minute press conference read more »
Africa Rising: Growth in Africa through steadfast statistics
The continent is working towards attaining “the Africa we want”. Key to achieving this goal, through the Sustainable Development Goals and Agenda 2063, are quality and relevant statistics. African Statistics Day is celebrated each year on 18 November. Africa celebrates this day to raise awareness of the importance of statistics in all aspects of read more »
Media invite: QLFS Q:3 of 2016
MEDIA ADVISORY 17 November 2016 Statistician-General to release Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) results for the third quarter of 2016 The Statistician-General of South Africa, Dr Pali Lehohla, will release the results of the Quarterly labour force survey (QLFS) for the third quarter (Q3) of 2016 at a media briefing to be held read more »