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 »
Statement by Chairman
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 »
Invitation
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 »
Non-agricultural formal employment decreases by a small margin in the second quarter
The number of employees in the formal non-agricultural sector of the South African economy decreased from an estimated 8 945 000 in March 2015 to an estimated 8 944 000 in June 2015.This reflected a quarterly decrease of 1 000 employees. The quarterly decrease was mainly due to decreases in employment reported by manufacturing industry which read more »
Media Invite: Large Sample Survey Reports
14 September 2015 Stats SA releases Large Sample Survey reports The Statistician-General, Mr Pali Lehohla, will release the three following Large Sample Survey reports: 1. Electricity, Gas and Water Supply Industry (2013) – 10h00 The results presented in this publication were derived from the 2013 Electricity, gas and water supply industry large sample read more »
Mbalo Brief – September 2015
Excitement was in the air in South Africa when Durban was announced as the host city of the 2022 Commonwealth Games on 2 September 2015. This is going to be the first time that these games will be held in the African continent since the inception of the Commonwealth games in 1930. This is an international, multi-sport event involving read more »
11th ASSD
The 11th instalment of the ASSD will be held back to back with the African Conference on a Transformative Agenda for Official Statistics as well as Statistics Commission for Africa and Committee of Directors-General meetings as follows: Theme: “Promoting Use of Information and Communication Technology Solutions in Improving CRVS in Africa” Dates: 23-25 November 2015 read more »