The National Household Travel Survey in South Africa (NHTS)
Media Release 12 March 2014 The National Household Travel Survey in South Africa (NHTS) The National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) reveals that barriers to mobility in the country have been reduced in the last ten years, yet several challenges remain. Rural households had better access to public transport and had reduced travel times. There has read more »
Export and import unit value indices, 25 February 2014
Highlights Stats SA will introduce a new Export and import unit value index (UVI) to replace the current Export and import price indices. The UVI series will be based on customs data from SARS and includes a much wider span of international trade transactions than is possible with the historic price index. The new index read more »
Job gains in quarter 4 of 2013 were in the informal sector and temporary in nature.
Based on revised estimates, in quarter 4 of 2013, employment levels rose to 15,2 million – surpassing the peak reached in quarter 4 of 2008 during the pre-recession period. However, quarterly job gains of 141 000 in quarter 4 of 2013 were largely due to an increase in informal sector employment of 123 000. In addition, most read more »
Notice of Change of Dates: 9th ASSD
Please be advised that it was decided during the 7th Meeting of the Committee of Directors General (CoDGs) of National Statistics Offices held from 5th to 7th December 2013 in Johannesburg that the 9th ASSD previously scheduled to take place in Gaborone, Botswana on 27-31 January 2014 be postponed to 17-21 February 2014. The reason read more »
Information Note
Organisation and coordination The meeting is jointly organised by the African Union Commission (AUC), the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), the African Development Bank (AfDB), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the Government of the Republic of Botswana as host, Statistics South Africa as the ASSD Secretariat and other statistical partners. The main read more »
The Statistician-General’s tribute to Madiba
On 18 July of 1918, somewhere in a small village in the world, on the African continent, in South Africa, in the Transkei, in Mvezo, a royal baThembu family was blessed with a baby boy – a boy who rose to become a world icon – a boy who today stands head and shoulders above read more »
CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF DEMOCRACY: HOW FAR HAVE WE COME?
In 2014, South Africa will celebrate 20 years of a democratic dispensation. It is an opportunity to look back at where we have come from, assess where we are, and reflect on how far we have to go to ensure that all South African’s basic needs are met. Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) has conducted read more »
ASSD Support to YAS
Young African Statisticians in ASSDs On the 2010 Round of Population and Housing Censuses (RPHCs)agenda:-Stats SA strategic objective number 6 mandates Stats SA to partake in international statistical activities. The vision of ISIbalo Capacity Building Programme is to create a completely literate society in Africa by creating awareness about the role of statistics and advocating read more »
2010 RPHCs Report in Africa as at Nov 2013
2010 Round of Population and Housing Censuses in Africa: Status Report as at November 2013 NO COUNTRY YEAR 1. CAMEROUN 2005 NO COUNTRY YEAR 2. BURKINA FASO 2006 3. EGYPT 2006 4. LESOTHO 2006 5. LIBYA 2006 6. NIGERIA 2006 NO COUNTRY YEAR 7. CONGO BRAZZAVILLE 2007 8. ETHIOPIA 2007 9. MOZAMBIQUE 2007 read more »
ASSD Journey
1. Round of Population and Housing Censuses Journey The inaugural objective of the 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 focused on the 2010 RPHCs in the period 2006–2010, and took place as follows: read more »