Annual report 2017/18

Table of Contents 1 2 3 4 Organisational overview Organisational performance 2 Financial performance 3 Looking ahead 4 Table of Contents

Organisational overview The South Africa I know The home I understand Vision Integrity Service excellence Empowering partnership Values To lead and partner in statistical systems and products for evidence based decisions Mission

Organisational overview Statistical production Statistical coordination Provides for independence . Stats Act Statistician-General Reports to Minister in the Presidency Stats Council advisory to Minister and SG Roleplayers An informed nation Trusted statistics Partners in statistics A capable organisation Statistical leadership Strategic outcomes

88% Organisational performance Not achieved Early Late Achieved Achieved as scheduled

Highlights Statistical outputs: Digitalisation: Service delivery: Published 265 statistical releases and reports on the economy & society Digitalisation: Conceptualised and tested transition from PAPI to CAPI Service delivery: Responded to >95% of user requests 2 million website visitors 350 thousand documents downloaded Unqualified audit opinion: No audit finding on predetermined objectives Emphasis of matter: Over expenditure on CoE

101% R2,178 Billion R2,196 Billion Financial performance allocation expenditure 101% Over expenditure

Economic classification Financial performance Expenditure pattern

Financial performance Actual spending Financial performance Goods & Services (saving) R 39 million Compensation of Employees (overspent) R 57 million Total (overspent – 101%) R18 million

Financial performance Financial performance Compensation of Employees Financial performance Financial performance 01 Shortfall on voted funds for CoE: R76 million (stopped filling vacancies since Oct 2016) 02 Shortfall reduced by R19 – utilizing funds from CS2016 (not baseline allocation) 03 Overall shortfall on CoE: R57 million

HR performance Filled posts by gender Filled posts by race

Vacancy rate by programme HR performance Vacancy rate by level Stats SA 13.9% Vacancy rate by programme

HR performance Disability: 36 staff (1.2%) Women in SMS: 40.9% Terminations: 104 New appointments: 1 (SG) Sick leave: on average 9 days per staff member

Stats SA @ risk 1 4 2 3 DEMAND BUDGET SUPPLY PEOPLE 1 2 4 3 Increasing demand for statistical information National Continental Global Other DEMAND 1 Severe budget cuts Warm bodies not affordable IES/LCS not funded Poverty estimates impacted CPI basket BUDGET 2 4 2 3 Basic statistics at risk – declining quality over time Discontinued integrative statistical products (value-add) & environmental accounts products SUPPLY 4 13,9% vacancy rate 104 staff left in 2017/18 Staff over-stretched – may be exposed to errors PEOPLE 3

Looking ahead Next 3-years Finalise legislative reform Maintain quality of basic statistics Census 2021 Census of Commercial Agriculture Next 3-years Integrated indicator framework Integrate, innovate & modernize business processes Strategy, resource and structure alignment