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 »
Statistics Council
Statistics Council Members PDF Statistics Council Statement on Census 2001 PDF Statistics Council Sub-Committee Comment on the Census 2001 results Preliminary investigations indicate that the 2001 census probably resulted in: an underestimate of the number of children below age five* an over-estimate of the number of teenagers aged between 10 and 20 an underestimate of read more »
Concepts & Definitions
Concepts & Definitions (Word 2000 format) (317KB) Concepts & Definitions (Pdf format) (281 KB) Concepts & Definitions (zip format) (266 KB) Click here for the definitions added in Version 2 (pdf format)
PES (Methodology, sampling frame, tables)
Description: In November 2001, a post-enumeration survey (PES) was conducted to estimate the extent of the undercount or overcount in the census. This publication describes the methodology, sampling frame and findings of the PES, and explains how the findings were used to weight the census results. Download instructions: This product is provided in PDF format. read more »
Editing manual
Description: This document describes the automated computer edits that were applied to the raw data to arrive at meaningful results. It describes the specifications used to define the universe for the different variables and derived variables, and how imputation was used to allocate values for unavailable, unknown, incorrect or inconsistent responses. Download instructions: This product 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 »
The Provincial Indices of Multiple Deprivation for South Africa 2001
Description: A team of academics and researchers drawn from Stats SA, Oxford University, and the Human Science Research Council has developed an approach to the measurement of poverty in South Africa which takes into account issues relating to income and material deprivation, employment deprivation, health deprivation, education deprivation, and the quality of the environment in read more »
Investigation into appropriate definitions for urban & rural areas for SA (Discussion document)
Description: Since the redemarcation of municipalities in South Africa in 1998, the legal definition of urban and non-urban has fallen away. This discussion paper identifies differences in how areas were categorised as urban or non-urban in 1996 and 2001, and examines the census results in the light of these differences. It then experiments with definitions read more »
How the count was done
Description: This report takes readers on a bird’s-eye view of three-and-a-half years of census planning, demarcation, enumeration, processing and checking, and product development. The report also examines the undercount and compares aspects of the 1996 and 2001 censuses. Download instructions: This product is provided in PDF format and Zipped PDF format. How the count was read more »
Prevalence of disability in South Africa
Description: Census 2001 was the second census to be carried out in a democratic South Africa to provide demographic and socio-economic data required to inform policy decision-making as well as ascertain the achievements made in the provision of basic services to the people. Data on disability were collected as part of this important endeavour. This read more »