About Africa Young Statisticians Programme
Young Statisticians Programme In response to growing concerns about the dearth of African statistical research and knowledge driven by Africans themselves, and also in response to the demographics of the African statistical community, Statistics SA developed the ISIbalo Young Statisticians Programme in 2008. A year before hosting the historic 57th Session of the International Statistics read more »
ISIbalo -4: Maths & Stats Education
Welcome to the page of ISIbalo-4: Maths, Stats & Geography Education. Maths, statistics and geography … three core subjects that form a basic foundation for the basket of disciplines required by the statistical value chain and official statistics.The history of separate development in South Africa, gave rise to an intended consequence of generations of people read more »
ISIbalo -2: African Young statisticians
WELCOME TO THE WEBSITE OF THE AFRICA YOUNG STATISTICIANS Mr Andrew Tshililo Chairperson: ISIbalo Africa Young Statisticians Executive Committee. Statistics SA AndrewT@statssa.gov.za Young and Counting!! Welcome to the website of Africa’s young statisticians. As the youth of this continent we are compelled by Africa 2063 – a common agenda for Africa’s sustainable development, to organise read more »
Upcoming Events
Upcoming Events A number of upcoming events include: Conference of the Population Ascociation of South Africa 2016 www.populationassociationsa.co.za Africa Symposium for Statistical Development 2016 www.statssa.gov.za South African Statistical Association Conference 2016 www.sastat.org.za 5thISIbalo Conference of African Young Statisticians 2016 www.statssa.gov.za 61st World Congress of the ISI 2017 www.isi2017.org 28th International Population Conference 2017 www.iussp.org
Documents
DOCUMENTS Scientific Writing and publications, Download (PPT 7411KB) PHIA Surveys overview w Flowchart, Download (PPTX 927KB) ISIbalo PHIA intro Sally, Download (PPTX 1603KB) Collinson Data Methods and Sources Isibalo June 2016, Download (PPTX 6501KB) Writing a successful research proposal, Download (PPT 5949KB) ISIbalo training session on Presenting Data v01, Download (PPTX 8776KB) Demographic Dividend in read more »
About Conference
5th ISIbalo Conference of African Young Statisticians  Theme: Population and Sustainable Development in Africa Pretoria, SOUTH AFRICA 13-17 June 2016 About the 5th ISIbalo Conference of African Young Statisticians Focus of the Conference Themes 5th Young Statisticians Program OutlineÂ
Its History
HISTORY OF THE ISIBALO CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAMME In 2009, South Africa hosted the 57th Session of the International Statistical Institute (ISI). The ISI is a prestigious professional body of statisticians worldwide. Hosting the ISI Congress for the first time on the African continent, South Africa asked itself a question that remains relevant to this day: read more »
GHS Series Volume VII: Housing from a human settlement perspective
Media Release                                                                                                                                                                 20 April 2016 GHS Series Volume VII: Housing from a human settlement perspective In-depth analysis of General Household Survey (2002-2014) and Census (1996-2011) data The number of households living in formal dwellings across the country has increased from 76% in 2002 to 80% 2014 which signifies that the read more »
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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 »
Mbalo Brief – April 2016
On 6 April 2016, the South African President Jacob Zuma proclaimed that the local government elections will be held on 3 August 2016. This is the fourth local government elections since the country’s first free and fair non-racial general elections held on 27 April 1994. Local government elections are held to elect members of the read more »