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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%.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Load shedding contributing to unemployment rate, says economist
Stats South Africa has announced that the country’s unemployment rate has remained at 29.1%.
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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%.
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Stats SA: SA is one of the most unequal countries in the world
Statistician-General Risenga Maluleke has released the inequality trends in South Africa.
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Things could get tougher for SA consumers, says economist
Statistics South Africa released a report on Wednesday, showing an increase in retail sales which boded well for economic growth.
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Investors to closely monitor SA polls after positive GDP figures, say economists
Stats SA said the country’s economy expanded by 1.4% in the fourth quarter of last year following a revised figure of 2.6% in the third quarter.
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Retail sales up 2.2% year/year in October - Stats SA
Sales were up 1.8% in the three months to the end of October compared with the same period in 2017, Statistics South Africa said.
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Stats SA: Gross earnings in non-agricultural sectors increase by 4.2%
Stats SA says the increase in gross earnings comes with an increase in jobs in six sectors, including the community and business services, as well as mining.
