Interactive & electronic products
Digital Census Atlas: Maps displaying the demographic characteristics of South Africa and the different provinces and municipalities. Click here to access this product Interactive tables (PX-Web): Compile tables on a provincial, district council or municipality level according to your own specifications. Ward Profiles 2003: Census findings for all electoral wards, designed to give you – read more »
Data supplied to National Treasury
Data supplied to National Treasury for conversion of Census 2001 data in line with the preliminary municipal boundaries as at December 2005 (Ver: DPLG_091205) Data supplied to National Treasury for local government equitable share and municipal infrastructure grant formulae as at November 2004 Not available Data supplied to National Treasury for local government equitable share 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 »
Press & Media Releases
25 October 2011 Census 2011 to count South Africa’s 126 foreign missions abroad (pdf 78KB) 10 October 2011 AfriForum makes an appeal to the public to support Census 2011 (pdf 68KB) 4 October 2011 Stats SA appeals to police to secure census and the public (pdf 24KB) 22 August 2011 50 Days to Census (pdf 70KB) 15 August read more »
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Click here to download a printable version. 1. What is a population census? A population census is a snapshot of a country at a particular moment in time. South Africa’s census will be held in October this year. Census night is the 9th of October 2011. The picture we are taking will tell us how many people read more »
ASSD’s Journey
1. Round of Population and Housing Censuses Journey The inaugural objective of the Africa Symposium on Statistical Development (ASSD) was to strengthen collaboration in the mobilisation of African countries to conduct population censuses in the 2010 Round of Population and Housing Censuses (RPHCs). The first six ASSDs, focusing on the 2010 RPHCs for the period read more »
ASSD in brief
The Africa Symposia on Statistical Development in Brief The Africa Symposium on Statistical Development is a forum created to address a concern by African statisticians in a gathering in Yaounde, Cameroon in the year 2005.Taking place against a background of poor performance of African countries in undertaking population census previously and a report that painted read more »
Statement by Chairman
Announcement of 10th ASSD by ASSD Chairperson: Mr Pali Lehohla (South Africa’s Statistician-General) I am greatly honoured as the Chairperson of the Africa Symposia on Statistical Development (ASSD) to be entrusted with the responsibility of making the clarion call for the statistical community to meet in the Origins of the Nile River– the land of read more »
10th ASSD
ANNOUNCEMENT (ENGLISH) 10TH ASSD The 10th installment of the ASSD will be held as follows: Theme: “A Decade of Statistical Development: Revolutionising Censuses and Civil Registration and Vital Statistics towards Africa Agenda 2063”. Dates: 13th to 15th January 2015 Host Country: Government of the Republic of Uganda Host Ministries: Uganda Bureau of Statistics and Uganda read more »
10th Africa Symposium on Statistical Development (ASSD)
ANNOUNCEMENT (ENGLISH) 10TH ASSD The 10th installment of the ASSD will be held as follows: Theme: “A Decade of Statistical Development: Revolutionising Censuses and Civil Registration and Vital Statistics towards Africa Agenda 2063”. Dates: 13th to 15th January 2015 Host Country: Government of the Republic of Uganda Host Ministries: Uganda Bureau of Statistics and Uganda read more »