Statement from the South African Statistics Council on Stats SA funding
18 March 2022 Professor David Everatt, Chairperson, on behalf of the South African Statistics Council David.everatt@wits.ac.za, 0834559466 Stats SA is a globally recognised centre of excellence for producing official statistics. Stats SA is the only source of official statistics in South Africa. It has kept in touch with or led best practice across a wide read more »
Mbalo Brief – March 2022
On 23 March 2022, it marked exactly two years since President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the COVID-19 lockdown (an emergency protocol that requires South Africans to stay at home except for essential purposes) in South Africa for 21 days from 26 March 2020 to 16 April 2020. Although the lockdown was meant to last for only read more »
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Money CAN buy happiness!
What is poverty and what does it mean to be poor? Does it mean not having enough money to meet basic needs including food, clothing and shelter? Does it mean not being able to afford to buy a car or furniture for your home or even go on holiday because your income does not read more »
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The South African economy records a positive fourth quarter
Real gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 1,2%1 in the fourth quarter (October–December), taking the annual growth rate for 2021 to 4,9%. The fourth quarter was upbeat, with personal services, trade, manufacturing and agriculture the key drivers of growth. An increase in demand for goods and services drove up the expenditure side of the economy, read more »
Stats Biz – February 2022
Consumers breathed a little easier in January as headline inflation dipped to 5,7% from 5,9% in December. The softer rate was the result of lower fuel prices that decreased by 2,8% from record highs in December. Prices for passenger transport were also lower. Explore inflation, as well as other stories, in this edition of Stats read more »
Statistics South Africa to release the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), 4th Quarter 2021
MEDIA ADVISORYÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 3 March 2022 Statistics South Africa to release the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), 4th Quarter 2021 Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) will release the results of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the fourth quarter of 2021 at a media briefing to be held on Tuesday, 8 March 2022 in Pretoria. Media briefing read more »
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How COVID-19 changed the way we learn.
Education is deemed to be a basic human right but, in 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic changed not only the way we live, but also the way we learn. First-time learners were destined to experience learning in a very different way than their predecessors. In South Africa, school closures were announced on 18 March 2020, interrupting read more »
CAR HIRE REQUIRED FOR CENSUS 2022 PROJECT
REQUEST FOR QUOTATION CAR HIRE REQUIRED FOR CENSUS 2022 PROJECT Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) is conducting the population Census between February and July 2022. Approximately three hundred (300) vehicles will be required at this stage for the project. We are therefore requesting all suppliers who have the fleet of cars and are interested to read more »
Census 2022: Statement from Chairperson of Council and Statistician-General
MEDIA STATEMENT For immediate release                                                                        22 February 2022 Census 2022: Statement from Chairperson of Council and Statistician-General As the Chairperson of the Statistics Council, Prof. David Everatt, and the Statistician-General, Mr. Risenga Maluleke, we note issues raised by various stakeholders on some difficulties experienced during the commencement of Census 2022. While there are a host read more »
Online questionnaire completion for Census 2022 closing on 25 February 2022
Media Alert                                                                         22 February 2022 Online questionnaire completion for Census 2022 closing on 25 February 2022 Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) announced that households who registered to complete the census questionnaire online have until Friday 25th February 2022 to do so. Registration for remote data collection closed on 21 February 2021. While more than 400 000 read more »