Regional workshop for African
countries
Systems of Economic Surveys
Statistics South Africa
16-19 October 2007
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Strategy
Preferred supplier of
quality statistics
Vision
Information Advocacy
Quality of
to meet
and
Products
user needs partnerships & services
Themes
Develop the
NSS
Strategic
Objectives
Needs of
users
Corporate
image
Align to Govt
priorities
Increase accessibility
and usage
Align to international
frameworks
Improving
data
governance
Integrate
registers
across
government
Promote
integration
amongst
producers
of statistics
Improve
accuracy,
timeliness
& coherence
Good
governance
Compliance
Mgt risks
Data
governance
Plan &
execute in
budget
Optimise
technology
Mgt info
International
acclaimed
methods
Coverage of
frames
Quality mgt
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Building
Human
capacity
Admin
processes &
systems
Leadership
& mgt
BEE
Employer
of choice
Equity in the
work place
Corporate culture
and environment
Learning organisation
Basis of Surveys
System of Statistics in Stats SA
National Accounts
- Quarterly GDP
Monthly series
Economic Statistics
- Consumer Price Statistics
- Rural consumer Price Index
- Production Price Statistics
- Price Index for Services
- JBCC (user paid) - (not N/A)
- Mining Production & sales
- Manufacturing Product' & sales
- Manufacturing Utilisation of production
capacity
- Generation and consumptionof electricity
- Tourism accommodation survey
- Restaurant, fastfood outlets, bars &
canteens
- Wholesale Trade sales
- Retail Trade Sales
- Retail Trade in Motor vehicles and
Accessories
- Liquidations and Insolvencies
- Building Statistics
- Annual GDP
- GDP per region
- Supply and use tables
Quarterly series
Economic Statistics
Economic Statistics
- Financial Statistics on
Municipalities
- Survey on Levies
- Financial Statistics (QFS) - private
sector
Employment Statistics
- QES
- LFS (6 monthly)
Annual series
- Consolidated General Government
Institutions
- National Govern' expenditure
- Provincial Govern' expenditure
- Extra-budgetary Accounts and Funds
- Universities and Technikons
- Financial Statistics on Municipalities
- Building Statistics
- Economic Activity Survey
- Actual and Expected Capital Expenditure
of Government
- Municipalities: Non-financial data (not
N/A)
Social and Population
- General Household Survey
- Causes of Death (not N/A)
- Recorded Live Births (not N/A)
- Mid-year population estimates (not N/A)
- Marriages and divorces (not N/A)
- Tourism Satellite Accounts
- Social Accounting Matrix
- Natural Resource Accounts
3 Yearly series
Economic Statistics
Economic Statistics
- Business services (LSS)
- Mining (LSS)
- Manufacturing (LSS)
- Wholesale and Retail trade
(LSS)
- Motor trade (LSS)
- Post and Telecommunication
(LSS)
- Transport (LSS)
- Income and Expenditure (5 yr)
- Agriculture Census (periodic)
Social and Population
Social and Population
- Census replacement survey
- Population Census (10 yr)
Business Address Register
Spatial frame/Physical Address Register
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5 /10 Yearly or
Occasional series
Basis of Surveys
Other
sources
Primary
data
Econ
Indicators
National accounts/Action
plan
Survey 1
…...
Survey 2
Survey n
Indicators
Sampling
Administrative
sources
VAT investigations of
individual businesses
Investigations of
complex businesses
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BF surveys
 Survey design and organisation
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Common frames (Business register)
Centralised (survey areas gives specifications)
Representative (Size groups)
Satisfy level of precision
 Data Capture, Editing and Processing
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In-house VB based capture system
Automatic error, outlier, consistency, and other checks
SAS processing (allows automation – reduces errors)
Imputations - standardised
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 Integrated systems of surveys
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Corporation between similar surveys encouraged
Most of the integration @ data confrontation level
High level of standardisation and centralisation
Discussion ongoing about reconfigure the collection
clusters
Challenges with informal sector
 SA’ economy is mainly formal economy
 Estimates are derived from social statistics surveys
 This is an area where we would like to learn from other
countries
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Michael Manamela
Michaelm@statssa.gov.za
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