Mining: winners and losers of 2017
The 2017 Mining Charter published by government in June has seen its fair share of debate, opening intense discussions on the industry’s future. Outside of this policy debate, Stats SA recently published figures showing how the industry performed in 2016 and 2017. 2016 wasn’t a good year for South African mining. The industry as a read more »
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Investing in early childhood development is the future
Investing in early childhood development is the future “If we are to break the cycle of poverty, we need to educate the children of the poor.” – President Cyril Ramaphosa, SoNA 2018 The first one thousand days in a child’s life could hold the key to unlocking his/her life-long potential. By the age of 5, read more »
Change in publication date of Producer Price Index (PPI) January 2018
The PPI for January will be published at 11:30 on 28 February 2018 instead of 22 February as originally scheduled. The delay is a result of system difficulties experienced in shifting to the new PPI basket. The CMPI will be published at 12:00 on 28 February. The Import and export unit value indices will be read more »
Mbalo Brief – February 2018
As we were approaching the end of 2017, the Minister in the Presidency for Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, Mr Jeff Radebe, announced the appointment of the new Statistician-General (SG) for Statistics South Africa (Stats SA), Mr Risenga Maluleke, on 20 October 2017. The appointment followed the retirement of Dr Pali Lehohla who served as SG read more »
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Counting the costs of Valentine’s Day
You’ve got no one to blame except yourself. Admit it. You totally forgot about Valentine’s Day. Now that it’s just around the corner you’ve got to come up with something fast! It was months ago when you and your significant other agreed that it would be your turn this year to do something special. You read more »
Quarterly Labour Force Survey – QLFS Q4:2017
MEDIA RELEASE 13 February 2018 Quarterly Labour Force Survey – QLFS Q4:2017 The results of the Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) for the fourth quarter of 2017 released by Statistics South Africa today, indicate a decrease of 351 000 in the labour force in Q4:2017 with employment and unemployment decreasing by 21 000 read more »
Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) for the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2017
MEDIA ADVISORY 08 February 2018 Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) for the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2017 The Statistician-General of South Africa, Risenga Maluleke, will release the results of the Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) for the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2017 at a media briefing to be held read more »
Stats Biz – January 2018
Love, history, taxes, and your home. These are a few of the topics that Stats SA covered in 2017 through the lenses of numbers and statistics. Stats Biz takes a look at some of the more interesting bits of economic data that were published in 2017. Explore these headlines, as well as other stories, in read more »
How satisfied are you with accessing and using our data?
How satisfied are you with accessing and using our data? Share with us your data access and usage experience over the past year by completing the 2018 User Satisfaction Survey (USS). This will enable us to serve you better. The survey will only take 5-15 minutes. As an organisation we are mandated to read more »
QUARTERLY EMPLOYMENT STATISTICS
Media Release 12 December 2017 QUARTERLY EMPLOYMENT STATISTICS The results of the Quarterly Employment Survey for the third quarter of 2017 released by Statistics South Africa today, show a decline of 31 000 jobs (or -0.3%) to 9 589 000 in the formal non-agricultural sector in the quarter ended in September 2017. This is a read more »