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There are more new jobs in SA, but fewer are full-time
Motheo Khoaripe gets a breakdown of the latest jobs data from Matlapane Masupye, Director for Employment Statistics at Stats SA.
Cosatu has criticised government for implementing policies that do not place employment creation as a priority.
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%.
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.
Statistics South Africa is targeting 17 million households to collect demographic data in the census scheduled for next month.
In the first quarter of the year, Stats SA showed the unemployment rate hit an all-time high of 32.6%.
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.
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.
Economist at RMB, Siobhan Redford, has explained that the CPI rate would be positively influenced by rising fuel prices.
The reasons for travel other than work or business were predominantly for visiting friends, family, and ancestral homes.
Most job losses were reported in business services, followed by trade with 162,000 job losses as compared to the third quarter in 2019.
As the country looks to repair the economic damage caused by Covid-19 and the national lockdown, concerns about unemployment have risen.
On a month-on-month basis, the consumer price index was at 1.3% in July from 0.5% in the previous month.
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.
This brings the total number of persons employed in the formal non-agricultural sector in South Africa to 10.2 million.
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.
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.
Stats South Africa has announced that the country’s unemployment rate has remained at 29.1%.
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%.