Statement on the 11th Africa Symposium on Statistical Development Pali J. Lehohla: South African Statistician-General and ASSD Chairman I cannot wait to be part of, and meet with you at the next majestic gathering of the African Statistical Community and our statistical development partners; the 11th Africa Symposium on Statistical Development (ASSD) to be held   read more »

Statement on the 11th Africa Symposium on Statistical Development Pali J. Lehohla: South African Statistician-General and ASSD Chairman I cannot wait to be part of, and meet with you at the next majestic gathering of the African Statistical Community and our statistical development partners; the 11th Africa Symposium on Statistical Development (ASSD) to be held   read more »

Acting as intermediaries, municipalities buy electricity from Eskom in bulk and then re-sell it to various customers (including homes, businesses and government). According to the utility, 42% of the electricity it generated in 2013/14 was sold to redistributors, such as municipalities1. Almost a third of income earned by municipalities (R21,9 billion) in the quarter ended   read more »

10 September 2015 Media Release In 2014, there were 2,2 million volunteers compared to 1,3 million in 2010, constituting an increase of about 898 000 volunteers. The country’s volunteer rate increased by 2,1 percentage points to 5, 8% in 2014. The number of volunteered hours increased from the 419,2 million in 2010 to 610,4 million in   read more »

Every year on 18 July, schoolchildren, public servants, business people, organisations and men and women from all walks of life, devote 67 minutes of their time to a community service activity. This is in commemoration of the 67 years that the late Nelson Mandela spent fighting for human rights and social justice. Over the years,   read more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

The great book says it all in Matthew 26-11 that “The poor you will always have with you but you will not always have me”. And in Matthew 19-24 the great book says ‘Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who   read more »

18 May 2015 The release of the Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) publication for the first quarter of 2015 will be postponed to the 26th of May 2015. The release is postponed determine the impact of the implementation of a new master sample, based on the 2011 Census, on the QLFS series. The first quarter   read more »