Work Programme - Statistics South Africa

2.1.4 Living circumstances, service delivery and poverty
Over the past decade, government has made substantial inroads in the provision of general public services.
Expanded access to services has improved living conditions in poor communities across the country. Yet, the broadening of
Strategic objective:
Objective statement:
Expand the statistical information base by increasing its depth, breadth and geographic spread
Inform social and economic development planning, monitoring and decision-making by providing
accurate, relevant and timely statistical information on living conditions and poverty levels
Baseline: Number of statistical releases on an annual basis: 2
This objective will contribute to measuring life circumstances, service delivery and poverty in
South Africa. These variables are also extensively used to measure the MDGs within the country
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General Household Survey (GHS): The GHS is an annual household survey measuring multiple facets of the life circumstances
broad areas, namely education, health, activities related to social grants and social development, housing, and household
access to services and facilities.
Stats SA introduced process improvements during 2010 and turnaround times have been reduced to publishing the results
As part of the design of a continuous population survey for household surveys, the sampling methodology for the selected
indicators measured by the GHS will be reviewed so that annual reporting can be done at district council and/or municipal
level.
Other initiatives include:
groups, children, youth, the elderly, women and disabled people;
Assisting and providing technical support to government departments in using GHS data in planning, monitoring and
decision-making;
Compiling reports that measure indicators as per Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) frames of different stakeholders;
and
Researching service delivery in depth for a selected topic.
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