Statistics South Africa

Statistics South Africa

Agency overview
Preceding agencies	Central Statistical Service Statistics Branch (Bophuthatswana) Central Statistical Service (Ciskei) Central Statistics Office (Transkei) Statistics Division (Venda)
Jurisdiction	Government of South Africa
Headquarters	Isibalo House, 1 Koch Street Salvokop, Pretoria, Gauteng 25°45′38″S 28°11′16″E / 25.76056°S 28.18778°E / -25.76056; 28.18778
Employees	2 614 (2009/10)[1]
Annual budget	R1 973.3 million (2010/11)[1]
Minister responsible	Mondli Gungubele, Minister in the Presidency for the National Planning Commission
Agency executive	Risenga Maluleke, Statistician-General
Key document	Statistics Act, 1999
Website	www.statssa.gov.za

Statistics South Africa (officially the Department of Statistics South Africa, and often shortened to Stats SA) is the national statistical service of South Africa. The Department has the goal of producing timely, accurate and official statistics, in order to advance economic growth, development and democracy.

To this end, Statistics South Africa produces official demographic, economic and social censuses and surveys. To date Statistics South Africa has produced three censuses, in 1996, 2001, 2011 and 2022.

Stats SA was previously known as the "Central Statistical Service", shortly after the end of apartheid and also it absorbed the statistical services of the former Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Venda and Ciskei.

• 1999 Survey of Activities of Young People, or the SAYP.
• South African National Census of 2001
• 2007 Community Survey
• South African National Census of 2011
• South African National Census of 2022

• Statistics Act, no. 6 of 1999 from polity.org.za