Data

Anatomy of the crisis - August 2009                                       

This data was generated by the Gauteng City Region Observatory and DBSA for the Gauteng Department of Economic Development, as part of the background analysis for the report Benchmarking City and City-Region Responses to the Economic Crisis. It provides a four year time-series, from mid-2006 to mid-2009, for a wide range of indicators showing the dramatic change in economic health of the country and Gauteng through the recession

The General Household Survey (GHS) is conducted annually by Statistics South Africa (StatsSA). It is based on a sample of 25 653 households across the country, with 3 899 households surveyed in Gauteng. The survey covers a wide range of issues, from access to and satisfaction with health services, to food security, educational attainment, perceptions of safety, access to municipal services, and so on. This DataBrief summarises the results of the 2010 GHS for Gauteng, organising the data by the eight outcome areas of the Gauteng Provincial Government. Where relevant, results are compared with 2009, giving some indication of development progress in the region

The census results, released on 30 October 2012, are summarized in this GCRO Data Brief. In many respects, what is surprising about the results ... is how unsurprising they are. The recent GCRO Quality of Life survey findings are close to identical to the Census in virtually all areas (we were down on informal dwellings, but not much more).