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A deep dive into the richest data sets for South Africa

Need to measure customer demand for products while avoiding supply chain disruptions? Or plan for future land use, transport, and development priorities?

The regional data you need to make informed decisions is hard to find and access in the public domain. Publicly available datasets are incomplete, definitions are inconsistent, data is aligned to regional boundaries that change over time and the data quickly becomes outdated.

South Africa Regional Explorer solves these problems by providing standardized data with complete time series, the latest municipal boundaries for all variables, consistent definitions across years and quarterly updates that deliver the latest data where you need it.

We synthesize data from the South African government and local industry sources to measure economic activity, track population dynamics and deliver a detailed analysis of key South African demographics.

Every subscription includes access to a team of analysts, economists and econometricians who can advise you on the interpretation of data and its implications.

Overview

Solutions

What’s Included

Data Sources

South Africa Regional Explorer consolidates a wide range of data sources such as Statistics South Africa, South African Reserve Bank, South African Revenue Services, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Department of Mineral Resources, South African Petroleum Industry Association, National Electricity Regulator, and Eskom, Government departments including the National Treasury and the DTI, various development agencies, selected private research houses and many more.

South Africa Regional Explorer also connects with our Global Link Model, which provides a bigger picture across 68 countries.

What’s Included

Data Coverage, Concepts and Frequency

The region boundaries for South Africa Regional Explorer match the latest official municipal election boundaries. Older election boundaries and custom specified areas are available on request.

  • 9 provinces of South Africa
  • 44 district municipalities
  • 205 local municipalities
  • 8 metro municipalities
  • Sub-metro areas
  • Custom areas
  • South Africa GDP and population
  • South Africa employment and unemployment data by race, age, and gender for both the narrow and broad definition of unemployment
  • South Africa personal income data
  • Annual data from 1996 available for most variables
  • Quarterly data available for select variables including GDP by region
What’s Included

Delivery Platforms

South Africa Regional Explorer is available via a desktop or web application.

Desktop application

  • Enables extraction of any combination of data from the product offline.
  • Extracts data into Microsoft Excel in tabular or pivot table format or as charts.
  • Includes step-by-step methodologies for each model, a list of data sources, interactive maps of covered regions and more.

Web application

Provides online access to the data via pre-designed reports that analyze and summarize information from the South Africa Regional Explorer knowledge base.

Conveniently opens downloaded documents in Microsoft Word in a fully editable format.

What’s Included

What’s Included

Data Sets

Demography

South Africa population by gender, age and population group

Income and Expenditure

Households in South Africa by income bracket, disposable income and retail sales by category

Crime

Violent and property crimes and crime rates in South Africa

Development

South Africa population density, education levels and poverty indicators

Economic

South Africa GDP, remuneration and gross operating surplus

Fiscal

Statements of financial performance and financial position

Household Infrastructure

Type of housing, sanitation and water supply, and electricity access

Tourism

Trips by purpose, total tourist spending and tourist origin information

Labor

Economically active population and detailed unemployment data

International Trade

Details on South Africa imports and exports

Research & Analysis

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