Media invite:Statistician-General to release the ‘Education Series Volume III: Educational Enrolment and Achievement, 2016’ report
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Media invite: Manufacturing & Construction Industries report
Media advisory                                               22 September 2016 Statistician-General releases statistics on the performance and employment levels in manufacturing and construction industries. The Statistician-General of South Africa, Dr Pali Lehohla, will release reports on the performance of the Manufacturing and Construction industries at a media briefing to be held on Monday, 26 September 2016 in Pretoria. read more »
Media Release: Farming communities are unreceptive towards health survey
 Media release                                   12  September 2016  Farming communities are unreceptive towards health survey fieldworkers      South African Demographic and Heath Survey (SADHS) fieldworkers are experiencing challenges in some areas of the country, which is delaying the completion of data collection for the survey. Most of the areas in which fieldworkers find themselves not welcome are read more »
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Gender equality: have municipalities walked the talk?
As the dust settles from the municipal elections, new faces are bound to fill leadership positions within many municipalities. With National Women’s Day around the corner, Stats SA takes a current look at gender representation in local government, focusing on mayoral, managerial and councillor positions.  Municipal mayors Representation: 38% and lower than before You read more »
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Decline in social benefit pay-outs by public entities
South Africa’s 232 extra-budgetary accounts (EBAs) paid out less money in the form of social benefits in the 2014/15 fiscal year. Social benefits are transfers in cash or in-kind to the public that diminishes exposure to social risks such as unemployment, sickness due to disabilities and injury. Social benefits paid by EBAs amounted to read more »
Municipalities raise infrastructure spending despite tough economic conditions
Municipalities continue to invest heavily in service delivery-related infrastructure, according to Stats SA’s latest Capital expenditure by the public sector report. Municipalities increased their total capital expenditure (or capex) from R51,7 billion in 2014 to R59,0 billion in 2015, a rise of 14,3%. The largest component of municipal spending on infrastructure in 2015 was on read more »
Media Statement: Financial Census of Municipalities
29 June 2016 Financial census of municipalities for the year ended June 2015 Â According to the Financial Census of Municipalities results released by Statistics South Africa today, for the financial year ended 30 June 2015, municipalities across South Africa had received an income of R309 billion from all sources of income, this represented an read more »
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How much do municipalities spend on salaries?
Municipalities spend more money on their employees than on any one of the services provided to their clients/customers. Data from Stats SA’s latest Financial census of municipalities provides interesting insight into the patterns of salary costs across municipalities, as well as over time. Salary patterns across space Employee-related costs took up the largest chunk of read more »
Media advisory: Financial Census of Municipalities, 2015
Statistician-General to release the Financial Census of Municipalities, 2015 results The Statistician-General of South Africa, Dr Pali Lehohla, will release the results of the 2015 Financial Census of Municipalities at a media briefing to be held on Wednesday, 29 June 2016 in Pretoria. The survey collected a variety of financial information from local, district and read more »
Media Release: Non-financial census of municipalities (NFCM)
07 June 2016 Non-financial census of municipalities for the year ended 30 June 2015 The latest results of the Non-financial census of municipalities (NFCM) released by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) today shows that the number of consumer units receiving services from municipalities increased between 2014 and 2015. The highest percentage increase from 2014 to read more »