Vulnerable Groups Series I: The Social Profile of Youth, 2009–2014
Media Release 18 April 2016 Vulnerable Groups Series I: The Social Profile of Youth, 2009–2014  According to the Vulnerable Groups Series I: the social profile of youth, 2009-2014 the number of young people living below the poverty line decreased across all provinces; with Free State, Limpopo, and Northern Cape leading the pack with declines read more »
How the weather influences the nation’s use of electricity
Municipal purchases and sales of electricity followed a usual, but very interesting, seasonal pattern in the last three months of 2015, according to Stats SA’s latest Quarterly financial statistics of municipalities report. Published every quarter, the report provides an indication of the financial status of South Africa’s 278 municipalities, including data on where municipalities read more »
Community Survey 2016
The Community Survey 2016(CS) is a large-scale survey that happens in between Censuses 2011 and 2021. The main objective is to provide population and household statistics at municipal level to government and the private sector, to support planning and decision-making. The last Community Survey was conducted in 2007. Stats SA will visit approximately 1.3 million read more »
South Africa Demographic and Health Survey (SADHS): Dwelling Frame update
Statistics South Africa (Stats SA), in collaboration with the South African Medical Research Council, will be conducting the South Africa Demographic and Health Survey (SADHS) in 2016 on behalf of the National Department of Health. The survey aims to provide a better understanding of the health status of the population in South Africa. Key topics read more »
Victims of Crime Survey 2014/15
01 December 2015 Media Release Housebreaking on the rise as robbery drops South African households increasingly feel that the levels of violent and property crimes are increasing and this makes it unsafe to walk in parks or even allow their children to play freely in their neighbourhoods, this is according to the results of the read more »
Navigating the water crisis: where do we need the skills?
With South Africa in the grip of drought, the role of local municipalities to provide clean water, maintain infrastructure, and reduce wastage has become more important than ever. Recent data on staff vacancies show which municipalities are struggling to fill funded posts in their water management departments. Municipalities in Free State seem to be struggling read more »
Mbalo Brief – October 2015
The October month has been marked as the Transport Month. This period is used to focus on transport related matters such as road carnages and progress achieved in various transport programmes and projects among others. One of the campaigns to create awareness and reduce road carnage has been the placing of 47 coffins on the read more »
A glimpse at provincial government’s bank account
How are provincial governments using your tax money? Stats SA’s latest Financial Statistics of Provincial Government report describes the spending patterns of provincial government. Where do provinces get their money from? Mostly, from our tax contributions. Financial statements from 124 provincial government departments show that provincial governments sourced R429,9 billion in revenue in 2013/14. R415,7 read more »
Census 2001: Primary tables: 1996 and 2001 compared
Description: This publication consists of one national and nine provincial reports with detailed tables from both Census ’96 and Census 2001 giving number and percentage information for each of 23 person and household variables broken down by sex and population group. For each topic there is a comparative graph and a short narrative. Download instructions: read more »
Labour market dynamics in South Africa, 2014 report
PRESS STATEMENT APRIL 2015 Highlights The effects of the 2008–2009 global financial crisis on the South African economy continued to linger in 2014. This, combined with factors such as constrained electricity supply and labour unrest, has negatively impacted on the performance of the economy. Slowing growth rates over the period 2010–2013 (averaging 2,7%), continued into read more »