Finding Statistics in the Health Sciences Library Guide: South African Statistics

City Health website.

A portal for datasets for information like medicine costs, community profiles, crime statistics etc.

DataFirst is the Research Unit and Data Service based at the University of Cape Town. Provides access to survey and administrative microdata (data at unit record level) from South Africa and other African countries. OpenData Portal includes:
Data from the South African Department of Basic Education.
National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS)
Research ICT Africa
Data on Alcohol and Tobacco in Africa Project
Research on Open Educational Resources for Development Project (ROER4D)
Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU)

Includes updated Health Indicators and the District Health Barometer.

Includes a number of publications, research reports, technical reports, etc. that include statistics.

Includes data on Country Health Profile, Burden of Disease and Mortality.

Portal for data, statistics and visualizations produced by Stats SA. Includes dataset browser (Data Catalog) for finding information on CPI, Demographics, Electricity, Household Expenditures, Living conditions, Malaria, Mortality, Poverty and Urbanization

Includes South Africa Survey which gives up-to-date information on demographics, living conditions, health and social security.

Based on Census 2011, statistics can be explored by themes such as Household Service Delivery, Causes of Death and Poverty. Statistics provided by province and by municipality. Includes Maps Alive providing easy access to Census 2011 data. SuperCROSS version of Census 2011 is also loaded onto computers in ICH and Health Sciences Libraries for features such as tabulation and analytics devolving to suburb level.

Includes annual reports and other publications

Regional development profiles.

Includes population data, household information, data on service delivery, economics and education, devolving to suburb or community level.

Statistics on children in South Africa including their living conditions, care arrangements, health status, and access to schools and other services

Part of Countdown to 2015: Maternal, Newborn and Child Survival