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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 »
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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 »
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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 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 read more »
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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 »
![Stats SA to host the first annual Isibalo Awards](https://www.statssa.gov.za/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Isibalo-slider3-64x64.jpg)
Stats SA to host the first annual Isibalo Awards
Stats SA has started the Isibalo user group symposium where users of Stats SA data were invited to make presentations on how they were using official statistics for evidence based decision making. On the 4 Dec 2013, Stats SA will be hosting the first annual Isibalo Awards evening for the best presentations. We would like read more »
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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 »
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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 »
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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](https://www.statssa.gov.za/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/qfs_fig_4-64x64.png)
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 »
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Fieldworker – August/September 2013 release
Inside this edition: The Stats Act and you 2, Kicking off a passion for numbers 3, Gender counts: Women in Statistics 4-5, Building a future in construction 6, Bringing data to life 7, Test your knowledge 8