Mbalo Brief – November 2015
Water supply in some parts of South Africa is under severe strain. This is mainly due to the heatwave that swept through many parts of the country coupled with an increased demand in water mainly due to the heat. Two of South Africa’s cities, Johannesburg and Pretoria, recorded their hottest day ever on the 10th read more »
Media Invite: Large Sample Survey Reports
14 September 2015 Stats SA releases Large Sample Survey reports The Statistician-General, Mr Pali Lehohla, will release the three following Large Sample Survey reports: 1. Electricity, Gas and Water Supply Industry (2013) – 10h00 The results presented in this publication were derived from the 2013 Electricity, gas and water supply industry large sample read more »
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Municipal service delivery: less for free
More basic services are being extended to municipalities’ constituencies, but fewer of these services are being provided for free. This is according to the 2014 annual Non-financial census of municipalities report, which provides municipal data on various services (i.e. electricity, water, sewerage and sanitation, and solid waste management), details on indigents, and information on read more »
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Public-sector infrastructure investment beckons hope in trying times
In an environment of low real economic growth, South African public-sector institutions continued to plough an increasing amount of capital expenditure into the economy in the financial year 2013/14. This is evident from the latest capital expenditure survey, which indicates that total capital expenditure by the public sector rose from R224,8 billion in 2012/13 to read more »
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Rural municipalities continue to depend on government for revenue
Rural municipalities continue to rely heavily on national government to finance their budgets, according to data from the latest release of Stats SA’s Financial census of municipalities report. For every R1 of revenue received by municipalities in the year 2014, 33c was in the form of grants and subsidies from national and provincial government. The read more »
Key Municipal Data
Description: This publication presents key census findings for each metropolitan, district and local municipality. It consists of one page per municipality, with tables showing information for selected person and household variables. The book is ring bound to facilitate the photocopying of individual pages, and is designed principally for those without access to electronic census products 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 »
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Non-agricultural formal employment decreases in the first quarter
The March 2015 Quarterly Employment Statistics (QES) survey showed that total formal non-agricultural employment decreased by 44 000 jobs from 8 986 000 in the fourth quarter of 2014 to 8 942 000 in the first quarter of 2015. This is a quarterly decrease of 0.5 %. The quarterly decrease was mainly due to decreases read more »
Non-agricultural formal employment decreases in the first quarter
The March 2015 Quarterly Employment Statistics (QES) survey showed that total formal non-agricultural employment decreased by 44 000 jobs from 8 986 000 in the fourth quarter of 2014 to 8 942 000 in the first quarter of 2015.This is a quarterly decrease of 0.5 %. The quarterly decrease was mainly due to decreases reported read more »
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Turnover falls by 5,2% quarter-on-quarter in the private sector
Turnover for private sector enterprises dropped by 5,2% in the first quarter of 2015, the highest quarter-on-quarter percentage decrease since the first quarter of 2010. Total turnover fell from R2,06 trillion in the fourth quarter of 2014 (the quarter ending December) to R1,95 trillion in the first quarter of 2015 (the quarter ending March), according read more »