1. Annual report
2017/18

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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 88% Organisational performance Not achieved Early Late Achieved
Achieved as
scheduled

6. 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

7. 101% R2,178 Billion R2,196 Billion Financial performance allocation
expenditure
101%
Over expenditure

8. Economic classification
Financial
performance
Expenditure pattern

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

10. 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

11. HR
performance
Filled posts by gender
Filled posts by race

12. Vacancy rate by programmeHR
performance
Vacancy rate by level
Stats SA
13.9%
Vacancy rate by programme

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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