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Regional workshop for African countries

Systems of Economic Surveys

Statistics South Africa16-19 October 2007

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Strategy

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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

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Michael Manamela

Michaelm@statssa.gov.za