How Stats SA has reinvented itself under lockdown
‘One of the things we cannot deny is that technology will take the centre front as we go beyond Covid-19’
10 May 2020 - 16:43
SA’s central statistics gathering agency is making use of online surveys during the Covid-19 lockdown in a bid to continue generating the data needed by the government, and is looking at this method to prepare for the national census in October 2021.
Stats SA produces a range of statistics on issues ranging from consumer inflation, GDP and unemployment as well as conducting surveys on poverty, inequality and the delivery of services...
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