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Statistician-General Risenga Maluleke said that they had consulted the Information Regulator to ensure that the census process was in line with the Protection of Personal Information Act.

Afternoon Drive host John Maytham chats to Statistician-general Risenga Maluleke.

Fieldwork for the Pilot Census will resume from 13 to 31 August 2021 when Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) deploys fieldworkers in selected areas around the country. The fieldworkers will visit sampled households to complete the Pilot Census questionnaire as the last leg of the pilot phase, which started with remote data collection via online and telephonic methods during alert level 4 lockdown.  Remote data collection via online and telephone methods was concluded recently, however, resp...

The indicators accompanied the release of the fourth-quarter GDP data, with an increase of 1.5% in the fourth quarter of last year.

Online census planning has been tested on some members of the public, but it doesnt seem to have taken.

Postponing the census was not an option that statistician general Risenga Maluleke even wanted to contemplate at this point.