Media statement: Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) Postponement notice
Media Statement 08 May 2017 Postponement of the QLFS Q1:2017 report The Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) Q1:2017 scheduled to be released on Tuesday, 9 May 2017 has been postponed to the 1st June 2017. The processing of data has taken longer than anticipated. Statistics South Africa would like to apologise for the read more »
Your job, your economy, your province
Kathu has a story to tell. Located in the rural expanse of the Northern Cape, this small town owes its existence almost entirely to iron ore. The streets, the businesses that line them, and the eleven thousand people that call Kathu home, all draw their economic lifeblood from Sishen, one of the largest open-pit mines read more »
Seasonal adjustment: a short primer
Stats SA has, for the first time, included seasonally adjusted data in its Quarterly financial statistics of municipalities. What is seasonal adjustment? Why is it significant? Stats SA breaks it down for you. South Africa’s 257 municipalities play a vital role. Not only do they interact with citizens at a local level, but they are read more »
Media advisory: Quarterly Employment Statistics Q4 2016
MEDIA ADVISORY 6 April 2017 Formal sector employment statistics for the fourth quarter of 2016 to be released on Friday, 7 April 2017 on the Stats SA website Statistics South Africa will tomorrow (Friday, 7 April 2017) release the Quarterly Employment Statistics (QES) for the fourth quarter of 2016 on its website (www.statssa.gov.za). read more »
Media statement: Postponement of the release of Quarterly Employment Statistics
MEDIA STATEMENT 2 April 2017 Postponement of Quarterly Employment Survey – QES December 2016 release The Quarterly Employment Survey is establishment based and covers formal sector businesses which are registered for VAT and government departments at all levels. This implies that the survey depends on the business register as a sampling frame. However, new read more »
Media advisory: Quarterly Employment Statistics (QES) Q4 of 2016
MEDIA ADVISORY 30 March 2017 Statistician-General to release formal sector employment statistics for the fourth quarter of 2016 The Statistician-General of South Africa, Dr Pali Lehohla, will release the Quarterly Employment Statistics (QES) for the fourth quarter of 2016 in Pretoria. The QES measures changes in employment across all industries in the formal read more »
Media release: Quarterly Financial Statistics of Municipalities December 2016
MEDIA RELEASE 30 March 2017 Quarterly Financial Statistics of Municipalities December 2016 According to the latest Quarterly financial statistics of municipalities released by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) today, purchases of water by South African municipalities decreased by 1,8% between the quarters ended September 2016 and December 2016. Electricity purchases by municipalities over the same read more »
Media release: The state of basic service delivery in South Africa
MEDIA RELEASE 30 March 2017 The state of basic service delivery in South Africa: In-depth analysis of the Community Survey 2016 data Tremendous progress has been made over the past few decades in the delivery of basic services. The Community Survey 2016 found that 89,8% of households used piped water, 63,4% used flush toilets read more »
Media advisory: The state of basic service delivery in South Africa & Quarterly financial statistics of municipalities
Media advisory 28 March 2017 Statistician-General to release reports on financial statistics of municipalities and the state of basic service delivery The Statistician-General of South Africa, Dr Pali Lehohla, will release reports on the quarterly financial statistics of municipalities and the state of basic service delivery in South Africa at a media read more »
Statistics on the rocks: exploring the price of whiskey
International Whisk(e)y Day is on 27 March1. If you consider yourself a connoisseur of bourbon or rye, then the following is for you. Take a brief tour of what Stats SA has to say about whiskey in terms of its popularity and price. If whiskey is your preferred alcoholic beverage, you stand somewhat apart from read more »