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STATISTICS SOUTH AFRICA Stats SA provides scientific knowledge that enables society to understand complex socio-economic phenomena. It draws its mandate from the Statistics Act, 1999 (Act No 6 of 1999). Stats SA strives to excel in the following five competencies: Intellectual capability to lead the scientific work of statistics, Technological competence for purposes of large-scale read more »
Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) – Q2:2022
MEDIA RELEASE Embargo: Tuesday 23 August 2022, 11h30 AM Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) – Q2:2022 The official unemployment rate was 33,9% in the second quarter of 2022. Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) has, today (23 August 2022), issued the results of the Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) for Q2: 2022. These results indicate that read more »
Quarterly Labour Force Survey – QLFS Q4:2018
MEDIA RELEASE 12 February 2019 Quarterly Labour Force Survey – QLFS Q4:2018 The results of the Quarterly read more »
Quarterly Labour Force Survey – QLFS Q4:2017
MEDIA RELEASE 13 February 2018 Quarterly Labour Force Survey – QLFS Q4:2017 The results of the Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) for the fourth quarter of 2017 released by Statistics South Africa today, indicate a decrease of 351 000 in the labour force in Q4:2017 with employment and unemployment decreasing by 21 000 read more »
Quarterly Labour Force Survey – QLFS Q3:2017
The results of the Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) for the third quarter of 2017 released by Statistics South Africa today, indicate that employment grew by 92 000 in Q3:2017, however this was offset by an additional 33 000 job-seekers during the same period, resulting in a stable unemployment rate of 27,7%. The growth in employment was read more »
Quarterly Labour Force Survey – QLFS Q1:2017
MEDIA RELEASE 1 June 2017 Quarterly Labour Force Survey – QLFS Q1:2017 The growth in employment by 144 000, was offset by the growth in the number of job-seekers by 433 000 read more »
Media release:Quarterly Labour Force Survey – QLFS Q4:2016
MEDIA RELEASE 14 February 2017 The results of the Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) for the fourth quarter of 2016 released by Statistics South Africa today, indicate that employment grew by 235 000 and the number of job seekers declined by 92 000 resulting in slight decline in the unemployment rate by 0,6 of percentage point to 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 »
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 Release: Labour Market Dynamics in South Africa, 2015
Media Release 11 October 2016 Labour Market Dynamics in South Africa, 2015 Statistics South Africa today released the Labour Market Dynamics in South Africa, 2015 report which shows that between 2009 and 2015 employment increased from 14,2 million to 15,7 million. This rise, however, did not keep pace with the increase in the read more »