Wikipedia:WikiProject South Africa/Statistics

The purpose of this page is to expand and improve the use of statistics in articles related to South Africa.

Statistics is an integral part of everyday life, it is used in practically all fields and topics ranging from census and election results, geographic data, economics and business, health, education and other government functions and services, even the performance of sports stars and teams is expressed in terms of statistics. Anything and everything that is amenable to quantification is a subject for statistics.

Sources for South Africa statistics

General

• Statistics South Africa, [1]
• World Factbook, World Factbook - South Africa

Health and human development

• UNICEF, [2]
• AVERT, [3]
• Treatment Action Campaign, [4]

Economics and business

• Bureau for Economic Research of Stellenbosch University, [5]
• Department of Trade and Industry, [6]
• National Treasury, [7]
• South African Revenue Service, Tax statistics

Politics

• Independent Electoral Commission, Election results
• South African Institute of Race Relations, Various reports and studies

Sport

• South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee, [8]
• Supersport, [9]

To Do list

High priority

• Expand and improve South African National Census of 2011

Medium priority

• Clean up and improve South African National Census of 2001
• Verify that all relevant data from South African municipal election, 2011 has been entered correctly into all municipality and other relevant articles such as mayor's bios, political party articles, etc. (See also Wikipedia talk:WikiProject South Africa/Municipalities task force#Article update and cleanup drive)

Low priority

• Continuous maintenance of all articles containing statistics