Africa Symposia on Statistical Development
The Africa Symposium on Statistical Development is a forum created to address a concern by African statisticians in a gathering in Yaounde, 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 painted an unimpressive picture of the continent’s state of read more »
Statement by Chairman
Statement on the 9th Africa Symposium on Statistical Development Pali J. Lehohla: South African Statistician-General and ASSD Chairman Colleagues, The drum is beating again and louder, this time beckoning the African statistical community to the 9th Africa Symposium on Statistical Development to be held at the majestic Gaborone International Convention Centre in Gaborone, Botswana from read more »
Employment levels back to pre-recession peak but absorption rate lower
Employment levels at 14 million in Q3: 2013 are now back to the Q4: 2008 peak. The working age population however, has increased by 2,3 million over the period Q4: 2008 to Q3: 2013 such that the percentage of South Africans aged 15-64 years with jobs (the absorption rate) has declined from 45,0% in Q4: read more »
Celebrating 20 years of Freedom and Democracy
On 27 April 1994 South Africa cast aside centuries of discrimination and oppression to form a new society built on the foundation of freedom and democracy. This marked the end of apartheid rule and an introduction of a new Constitutional order, wherein all South Africans work towards a united, non-racial, non-sexist, democratic and prosperous society. read more »
Millennium Development Goals report
FOREWORD Minister Trevor Manuel, the Minister in the Presidency: The National Planning Commission We are in the home stretch, 2015 is just around the corner and this Millennium Development Goals report, the fifth in a series of reports since the adoption of the MDG‟s in 2000, is critical in understanding and knowing whether we are read more »
Quarterly Financial Statistics: Ratio Analysis
Given the vast amount of information appearing in detailed financial statements of companies, it may be difficult to discern significant relationships and trends in the data. One way to address this challenge is to use accounting ratios, which provides substantial insights into the relationships between variables and can indicate certain trends. Accounting ratios are calculated read more »
Gauteng municipalities lead the way in income generation from households
Municipalities in Gauteng province are better off in terms of generating their own revenue in the form of services provided to households, while at the same time they are also getting a bigger share of the grants and subsidies received from both national and provincial governments in proportion to the increase in total population. The read more »
Say hallo, sawubona, dumela, Aa and avuxeni to the Multilingual Statistical Terminology Publication!
“The information gap between the elite and illiterate must be closed”. This statement by Statistician-General, Mr Pali Lehohla beautifully sums up the reason for the launch of this multilingual terminology publication. The launch event took place on 20 September 2013 at the Protea Manor Hotel in Pretoria. Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) worked in collaboration read more »
Mbalo Brief – September 2013
South Africa has recently been plagued by a series of strikes. As collective wage negotiations got underway, employers and employees came to a deadlock. Mining, car manufacturing and City Power workers were among some of the workers who downed their tools during this time. Although many would agree that this year’s ‘strike season’, as some call it, was not read more »
Provision of basic services at local government level increases
The provision of basic services such as water went up by 6,4% between 2011 and 2012 nationally. The highest provincial increases were recorded in Western Cape (19,6%) and Gauteng (7,2%). The extent of service delivery at local government level is normally obtained from households through population censuses and general household surveys. However, the suppliers (the read more »