Work Programme - Statistics South Africa

1.5.1.1 Economic growth and transformation
coherence and international best practices. These frameworks are supported by international organisations such as the
OECD, UNSD and IMF, which are critical role players in the global economy. Our interaction with other countries, as
manifested in international trade, investment and economic growth, is reliant on accurate and comparable statistics. This
forms the basis for robust decision-making on economic growth.
In the 2010/11–2014/15 strategic plan Stats SA sets out to implement the new system of national accounts. The system
of national accounts (SNA) is the framework that guides all activities for measuring economic growth in the country as
produced by various organs of state in the statistics system. At present, South Africa follows the 1993 SNA. The 2008
SNA has, however, recently been approved by the United Nations and countries have embarked on the implementation of
the new framework.
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the development of new IT systems related to the Business Register, the basis of all economic statistics. The third phase
is to conduct a Census of all businesses
against the administrative taxation data that is typically used to update the register. It aims to provide each business entity
Census of businesses also provides an
well as to preserve time-series.
A capacity-building project has been established to ensure that human capacity is developed that can enhance the current
skills-base and provide a broader understanding and production of national accounts statistics. A project plan for the
for international trade and investment.
The lack of funding prohibits the organisation to expand the statistical information base in depth, breadth and geographic
spread in relation to economic growth and transformation, price stability and employment and job creation, as the
becoming inaccurate and irrelevant over the medium term.
the South Africa I know, the home I understand