Annual Report: 2009/10

1. Annual Report: 2009/10

2. Content • Organisational Performance • Statistical information • Improving quality of products and services • Statistical coordination and partnerships • Building human capacity • Financial Performance • Financial statement • Improving governance • Millennium Development Goals • Census 2011

3. Performance information

4. Statistical information Role of statistics towards evidence-based decision-making Society needs basic macro economic and social information to inform decision-making in public and private sector Economic growth Price stability Employment and job creation Life circumstances, service delivery and poverty Demographic profile and population dynamics

5. Economic Growth Development Outcome: Create decent employment through inclusive economic growth • Improvements: • Increasing attention paid to deflators (the process of converting nominal values to constant), seasonal adjustment methods, maintaining good time series data, improvement of product capability,

6. Price Stability Development Outcome: Create decent employment through inclusive economic growth • Improvements/ Challenges: • Develop a suite of independent PPI’s over a period of several years • Review and improve on several areas in the CPI incorporating international trends such as quality adjustment of products, enhanced satellite surveys of housing, health and domestic workers wages • Gearing up for a new round of reweighting and rebasing of the CPI

7. Employment and job creation Development Outcome: Create decent employment through inclusive economic growth • Improvements: • QLFS: Introduced supplementary modules to measure • Employers and the self-employed • Earnings • QLFS: Developed and tested supplementary module to measure • Expanded public works programme • Key challenge is better integration between QES and QLFS

8. Life circumstances, service delivery and poverty • Development Outcomes: • Create sustainable human settlements and improved quality of household life • Build a responsive, accountable, effective and efficient local government system • Improvements/ Challenges: • Analytical capability remains a challenge

9. Demographic profile and population dynamics • Development Outcomes: • Create sustainable human settlements and improved quality of household life • Build a responsive, accountable, effective and efficient local government system • Improve healthcare and life expectancy among all South Africans • Develop vibrant, equitable and sustainable rural communities that contribute to adequate food supply • Improve the quality of basic education • Improvements/ Challenges: • Recent MDG report has shown gaps in demographic and health data • Cooperation of the public to open doors to be counted

10. Improving statistical products and services • Improvements/Challenges: • Single integrated business registration system: Slow progress made on the intergovernmental project between SARS, Stats SA, National Treasury and the dti • Statistical support provided to CIPRO in terms of data analysis and quality improvement • SASQAF gazetted as a quality assessment framework for statistical production • …

11. Statistical coordination and partnerships • Challenges: • Addressing the information gap, quality gap and skills gap in the South African National Statistics System (SANSS)

12. Building human capacity • Initiatives: • Foreign study programme: Tanzania, Uganda and Ivory Coast

13. Financial information

14. Audit statement • Opinion: • Clean Audit – 4th consecutive year • 3 Emphasis of matters • Actions taken to address emphasis of matters: • Additional controls for overtime approval have been implemented • In the process of developing an early warning system to monitor damages to vehicles • Material underspent reported: • Roll-over received: R96,888 for Census 2011 • Revised underspent: R62,505

15. Financial Statement: 2009/10

16. Improving governance • Initiatives and Improvements: • Aligned and integrated strategic and operational planning, reporting and monitoring • Invoice tracking system and Commitments Authorisation Schedule Tool were developed and implemented currently moved to payment of 97% suppliers within 30 days • Bi-annual asset verification introduced

17. Millennium Development Goals

18. Role of Stats SA • MDGs – A national effort • Coordinate statistical production for data provision • National coordination committee • Joint working groups • Make MDGs relevant to South Africa via – • National Methodology Workshop • Domesticating indicators and setting targets • Consultation with Civil Society and other stakeholders • Data quality assurance • Coordinate compilation of MDG country report • Disseminate The South Africa I know, the home we understand

19. Census 2011 : You count!

20. Population Census 2011 – A national effort • Biggest mobilisation during times of peace • Most comprehensive source of evidence on intervention programmes • Central to evidence based policy- and decision-making • Biggest conversation amongst South Africans The South Africa we know, the home we understand

21. Population Census 2011 – A national effort • What is expected from the public: • Open your heart and house • Mobilize and encourage your community to participate • Fly the census-flag • Answer to the census-taker • You Count The South Africa we know, the home we understand

22. Launch of the 365 days Countdown to Census 2011 10-10-10-10 Countdown clock unveiled We received considerable media coverage Provincial launches continuing Census 2011 Dress Rehearsal currently in field World Statistics Day 2010-2010 Theme: Celebrating the Many Achievements of Official Statistics Service, integrity, professionalism Population Census 2011 – A national effort Census 2011 Countdown - 355 days The South Africa we know, the home we understand

23. Census campaign October 2010 June – Sept 2011 October 2011 Nov 2011 January –April 2011 The South Africa we know, the home we understand

24. Role of Public representatives in Census 2011 • Population Census 2011 – A national effort • Parliamentarians, religious leaders, traditional authorities etc - the ambassadors for Census 2011 (non partisan): • Assist in public mobilization • Assist Stats SA in accessing the “hard-to-count” areas • Promote the use of official statistics • Promote the benefits to the public • Problem resolution on the ground • Be carriers of the Census Brand (like we did with the World Cup) • Hold Stats SA to account • Resources deployed • Output of Census 2011 The South Africa we know, the home we understand

25. - Thank you - The South Africa we know, the home we understand