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Regional workshop for African countries
Systems of Economic Surveys
Statistics South Africa16-19 October 2007
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Strategy
Preferred supplier of quality statisticsVision
Themes
Strategic Objectives
Information to meet
user needs
Advocacy and
partnerships
BuildingHuman capacity
Good governance
Quality of Products
& services
Needs of users
Align to international frameworks
Align to Govt priorities
Corporate image
Develop the NSS
Promote integration amongst producers of statistics
Integrate registers across government
Quality mgt
Improve accuracy, timeliness
& coherence
International acclaimed methods
Coverage of frames
Data governance
Optimise technology
Compliance
Leadership & mgt
BEE
Mgt info
Mgt risks
Plan & execute in budget
Admin processes & systems
Employer of choice
Corporate culture and environment
Learning organisation
Equity in the work place
Increase accessibility and usage
Improving data governance
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Basis of Surveys
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
Monthly series Quarterly series Annual series
Economic Statistics
- Financial Statistics on Municipalities- Survey on Levies- Financial Statistics (QFS) - private sector
Employment Statistics- QES- LFS (6 monthly)
Economic Statistics
- 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)
3 Yearly series
Economic Statistics
- Business services (LSS)- Mining (LSS)- Manufacturing (LSS) - Wholesale and Retail trade (LSS) - Motor trade (LSS) - Post and Telecommunication (LSS) - Transport (LSS)
Social and Population
- Census replacement survey
5 /10 Yearly or Occasional series
Economic Statistics
- Income and Expenditure (5 yr)- Agriculture Census (periodic)
Social and Population
- Population Census (10 yr)
National Accounts- Quarterly GDP - Annual GDP - Tourism Satellite Accounts
- GDP per region - Social Accounting Matrix- Supply and use tables - Natural Resource Accounts
System of Statistics in Stats SA
Business Address Register
Spatial frame/Physical Address Register
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Basis of Surveys
Survey 1 Survey 2 Survey n…...
Administrative sources
VAT investigations of individual businesses
BF surveys
IndicatorsPrimary data
Other sources
Sampling
Econ Indicators
Investigations of complex businesses
National accounts/Action plan
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Survey design and organisation Common frames (Business register) Centralised (survey areas gives specifications) Representative (Size groups) Satisfy level of precision
Data Capture, Editing and Processing 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 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