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Statistics south africa

There are more new jobs in SA, but fewer are full-time

By Paula Luckhoff

Motheo Khoaripe gets a breakdown of the latest jobs data from Matlapane Masupye, Director for Employment Statistics at Stats SA.

  • FILE: Unemployed builders, tilers and plumbers hold signs seeking jobs on the side of the road in Johannesburg in November 2019. Picture: AFP

    Cosatu, Saftu demand decisive leadership to alleviate SA's unemployment crisis

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    91 days ago
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    SA’s unemployment rate crosses the dreaded 35% threshold: Stats SA

    Statistic South Africa says the country’s unemployment rate has crossed the feared 35% threshold in the fourth quarter of 2021, bringing the rate to 35.3%.

    92 days ago
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    GUIDE: How to register to take the 2022 population census online

    For those who would rather not conduct the interview in the traditional face-to-face method, Stats SA has launched an online platform, allowing you to do the census yourself safely and securely.

    155 days ago
  • Deputy Minister in the Presidency Thembi Siweya at a briefing on 25 January 2022 outlining Stats SA's state of readiness for Census 2022. Picture: GCIS

    Stats SA to spend R3.2 billion on nationwide census

    Statistics South Africa is targeting 17 million households to collect demographic data in the census scheduled for next month.

    155 days ago
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    Economist expects QLFS data for Q2 to be less bleak than Q1

    In the first quarter of the year, Stats SA showed the unemployment rate hit an all-time high of 32.6%.

    309 days ago
  • The first-ever Migration and Urbanisation Conference, hosted by the department of social development and Stats SA, will take place virtually starting on Monday, 26 July 2021. Picture: Twitter/@StatsSA

    DSD, Stats SA to host first Migration & Urbanisation conference

    The department of social development and Statistics SA will host the first ever National Migration and Urbanisation Conference starts on Monday and ends on Thursday.

    339 days ago
  • FILE: Unemployed builders, tilers and plumbers hold signs seeking jobs on the side of the road in Johannesburg in November 2019. Picture: AFP

    StatsSA says total employment decreased by 0.1%

    Economists were hoping to see at least some modest gains overall in the numbers as they would have been seen as an indicator of a broader economic recovery.

    365 days ago
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    Economist expects CPI to lift above 3%

    Economist at RMB, Siobhan Redford, has explained that the CPI rate would be positively influenced by rising fuel prices.

    434 days ago
  • FILE: Children wearing protective facemasks and extending their arms to enforce social distancing, walk with volunteers of the non-profit organisation and charity group "Hunger has no Religion" in Westbury, Johannesburg, on 23 May 2020. Picture: AFP

    17 million South Africans walk to their destinations - travel survey

    The reasons for travel other than work or business were predominantly for visiting friends, family, and ancestral homes.

    482 days ago
  • FILE: The picture was not completely bleak with the total number of employed persons increasing from 9 506 000 in the second quarter to 9 581 000 in the period under review. Picture: Pexels.

    Stats SA: All industries saw job losses y/y in Q3

    Most job losses were reported in business services, followed by trade with 162,000 job losses as compared to the third quarter in 2019.

    560 days ago
  • FILE: A graduate seeks employment by putting himself out there standing on a street corner. Picture: EWN

    FACT CHECK: Does SA have the world’s ‘worst levels’ of youth unemployment?

    As the country looks to repair the economic damage caused by Covid-19 and the national lockdown, concerns about unemployment have risen.

    594 days ago
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    SA consumer inflation rises to 3.2% y/y in July

    On a month-on-month basis, the consumer price index was at 1.3% in July from 0.5% in the previous month.

    672 days ago
  • Statistician general Risenga Maluleke. Picture: GCIS.

    Stats SA hopes to reach 300k households in first-ever digital census trial

    South Africa is due to roll out its first digital census next year, which will require respondents to register online and through social media platforms.

    688 days ago
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    Over 3,000 jobs shed in SA’s non-agriculture sector in first quarter of the year

    This brings the total number of persons employed in the formal non-agricultural sector in South Africa to 10.2 million.

    701 days ago
  • FILE: On a monthly basis sales were up 74.2% after a 50.7% contraction in April. Quarterly sales dropped 19.5%. Picture: pixabay.com

    SA's retail sales plunge in April and May after hard lockdown

    At the end of March, President Cyril Ramaphosa took early action, shutting restaurants, banning alcohol and tobacco sales, while ordering people to stay at home and sending the army on to the streets to enforce it.

    706 days ago
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    SA black & coloured millennials have lowest university attendance - report

    StatsSA's Education and Labour Market Outcomes in SA report revealed that more millennials than Generation Xers in the Indian/Asian population group attended university, while fewer millennials in the other population groups attended university institutions compared to Generation Xers.

    855 days ago
  • Joburg business owners close up shop as Eskom implements load shedding. Picture: Sethembiso Zulu/EWN

    Load shedding contributing to unemployment rate, says economist

    Stats South Africa has announced that the country’s unemployment rate has remained at 29.1%.

    868 days ago
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    Inflation slows to 8-year low, putting rates cuts back in picture

    Headline consumer inflation slowed to 3.7% year-on-year in October from 4.1% in September while monthly price growth was flat at 0%.

    952 days ago
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