South Africa’s economy narrowly avoids recession
South Africa’s economy grew by 0,7% in the third quarter of 2015, according to preliminary estimates of real gross domestic product (GDP) released by Stats SA. Unless otherwise stated, growth rates are quarter-on-quarter, seasonally adjusted and annualised. After experiencing a 1,3% contraction in the second quarter, the marginal GDP growth in the third quarter staved read more »
Government education expenditure on the rise
The South African government expenditure on education increased by R20 billion between 2012/13 and 2013/14, based on data from Stats SA’s recent Financial statistics of consolidated general government release. Expenditure over time Total expenditure on education increased by R80 billion over a five-year period, from R169 billion in 2009/10 to R249 billion1 in 2013/14, an read more »
Statistical release for third quarter (2015) GDP
19 November 2015 Embargoed until 9:30, 19 November 2015 PRESS STATEMENT Gross domestic product (GDP) Statistical release for third quarter (2015) GDP Statistics South Africa will publish third quarter (2015) GDP on Tuesday, 24 November 2015. Historically the November publication has contained regional GDP estimates, annual revisions and detailed GDP components. However, the third quarter read more »
Media Release: Private sector companies record turnover increases
Media Release 17 November 2015 Private sector companies record turnover increases The total turnover for private sector enterprises1 operating in the South African economy increased by 10,9% to R7 766 625 million (R7,8 trillion) in 2014, from R7 001 362 million (R7,0 trillion) in 2013. For the reference period, turnover increased in read more »
ASSD Concept key note
Draft CONCEPT NOTE 11TH AFRICA SYMPOSIUM ON STATISTICAL DEVELOPMENT “Promoting Use of Information and Communication Technology Solutions in Improving Civil Registration and Vital Statistics in Africa” 1. Introduction The year 2015 has unleashed a number of activities aimed at making Africa Agenda 2063 more practical. Among these are the adoption of its first read more »
Assd Civil Registration and Vital Statistics – English
Photo: Ministers call to action, Durban, South Africa, 2012 The CRVS agenda started in September 2012 when African Ministers responsible for civil registration gathered for their second conference held in South Africa and called upon all African countries to undertake in-depth assessments of their CRVS systems. The conference further called on the regional CRVS Secretariat, read more »
Better Data Better Lives – Stats SA keeps rolling
By Pali Lehohla “Better data, better lives”, is the commitment from official statistics organisations across the world as part of celebrating World Statistics Day, October 20 2015. Guided by the Fundamental Priniciples of Official Statistics and the call from United Nations General Secretary Ban Ki-Moon that “statistics are critical for evidence-based decision making across all read more »
Mbalo Brief – October 2015
The October month has been marked as the Transport Month. This period is used to focus on transport related matters such as road carnages and progress achieved in various transport programmes and projects among others. One of the campaigns to create awareness and reduce road carnage has been the placing of 47 coffins on the read more »
ASSD’s journey
The ASSD Journey 1. The 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 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 Yaoundé, 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 read more »