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South African Population Results from CS 2016 Source: CS 2016
EC Household Results from CS 2016 2001 Source: CS 2016
Economy
Which provincial economies grew in 2015? Annual change: constant prices GP 1,4% LP 1,9% South Africa 1,3% NC 0,9% NW 4,9% FS -0,2% MP -0,2% KZN 0,8% WC 1,5% EC 0,7% Eastern Cape posted 0,7% growth in 2015 Source: GDP Q4 2016
Provincial contribution to the national economy: 2015 Provincial contribution to the national economy - 2015 - Eastern Cape was the 4 th largest contributor to the SA economy in 2015 Source: GDP Q4 2016
Percentage distribution of economic activity within each province (2015) 20% 33% 23% 27% 18% 25% 25% 23% 17% Current prices Government had the largest share of economic activity within the EC Province Source: GDP Q4 2016
Employment
Employment by Province Eastern Cape gained 36 000 employed persons between Q4 2015 and Q4 2016 Source: QLFS Q4 2016
Thousands Employment by Industry with the EC 450 400 Community and social services 350 300 Trade 250 200 150 Manufacturing Construction 100 50 0 Community and Social Services provide the largest number of jobs, between 2008 and 2016 has seen construction overtake manufacturing in total amount of jobs Source: QLFS Q4 2016
Provincial Unemployment rate EC saw a slight increases between Q3 and Q4 2016 the official unemployment rate to 28,4% Source: QLFS Q4 2016
Unemployment Provincial Unemployment rate by province rate EC has seen an increase in both the official and expanded unemployment rates between Q4 2015 and Q4 2016 of 1% Source: QLFS Q4 2016
Education Levels of the Employed and Unemployed 68,2% of the unemployed in the EC, have a education level below matric Source: QLFS Q4 2016
Income and Expenditure
Province Average annual household income by province Western Cape 222 959 Gauteng 193 771 Mpumalanga Northern Cape KwaZulu-Natal Free State Eastern Cape North West Limpopo 107 561 103 912 101 088 98 529 90 156 86 926 79 152 South Africa 138 168 50 000 100 000 150 000 200 000 250 000 Annual income (Rands) Source: LCS 2014/15
Average annual household consumption expenditure by province LP R61,011 NW R69,192 GP R140 676 MP R83,517 NC R81,258 FS R85,298 KZN 73,503 EC R72,390 WC R163 220 Households in Western Cape (R163 220) spent more than twice the amount spent by households in Limpopo (R61 011) and North West (R69 192). Source: LCS 2014/15
Percentage distribution of main source of income by province, 2015 Considerable provincial variations are notable. Western Cape (70,4%) and Gauteng (70,0%) were the only two provinces in which more than two-thirds of households reported salaries as their main sources of income. EC LP NC FS KZN NW MP GP WC 42% 43% 49% 54% 54% 54% 55% 70% 70% 38% 33% 32% 24% 28% 25% 23% 10% 12% 0.0 10.0 20.0 30.0 40.0 50.0 60.0 70.0 80.0 90.0 100.0 Salaries Remittances Pensions Grants Other sources None Source: General Household Survey 2015
Percentage of individuals and households benefitting from Social grants per province, 2015 At 40% Eastern Cape has the highest level of households benefiting from Social Grants 70% 60% 60% 59% Persons Households 50% 40% 30% 37% 40% 31% 20% 10% 17% 0% NC EC LP KZN FS MP NW RSA WC GP Source: General Household Survey 2015
Agricultural Households
CS2016 shows that around 14% (2.3M) of all households (16,9M) in SA are Agricultural households Source: CS 2016
Eastern Cape KwaZulu-Natal Number of Agricultural households by province 600000 500000 KwaZulu-Natal has the highest number of Agricultural Households in South Africa, however EC has the highest proportion of Agricultural HH at 27,9% 495042 536225 400000 386660 300000 225282 242594 200000 157510 167780 100000 48798 69152 0 Northern Cape Western Cape Free State North West Mpumalanga Gauteng Limpopo Eastern Cape KwaZulu-Natal Source: CS 2016
Decrease in Agricultural Households The number of agricultural households in the country decreased by 19,1% (550 595) from 2 879 638 in Census 2011 to 2 329 043 in Community Survey 2016 Eastern Cape lost over 101 531 Agricultural HH between 2001 and 2016 Source: CS 2016
Contributing provinces to the decrease South Africa -19,1% NW -1,6% GP -1,3% LP -2,8% MP -1,3% NC -0,2% FS -1,5% KZN -6,3% WC -0,5% EC -3,5% The major contributing provinces to the decrease are KwaZulu-Natal (-6,3% or 180 781 agricultural households), Eastern Cape (-3,5% or 101 531) and Limpopo (-2,8% or 81 834). Source: CS 2016
Agricultural HH main purpose of involvement in agricultural activities: Main Source of Food Eastern Cape 53% Mpumalanga 48% Free State 45% North West 44% South Africa 44% Gauteng 44% KwaZulu-Natal Limpopo Northern Cape Western Cape 25% 30% 39% 41% Over twice as many Agricultural HH in EC conduct agricultural activities with the purpose being main source of food compared to Western Cape 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% Source: CS 2016
Agricultural HH in the EC engage in a variety of activities
Number of agricultural households involved in a specific activity Eastern Cape Livestock production 323763 Poultry production 318621 Grain and food crops Vegetable production 157732 178939 Fruit production 53242 Other Industrial crops 05183 02200 0 50000 100000 150000 200000 250000 300000 350000
Education
Percentage of persons aged 5 years and older who are attending educational institutions by province and type of institution attended, 2015 Eastern Cape had 2,0% of persons aged 5 years and older who are attending higher educational institutions below the national average of 4,4% Type of institution Province (per cent) WC EC NC FS KZN NW GP MP LP RSA Pre-school 4,3 1,8 2,8 2,9 2,4 2,6 4,5 2,7 0,8 2,8 School 84,6 92,7 91,0 85,5 92,0 89,2 78,3 89,4 93,3 88,0 AET 0,4 0,4 0,4 1,1 0,6 1,4 1,0 0,4 0,7 0,7 Literacy classes 0,2 0,1 0,0 0,2 0,0 0,1 0,0 0,1 0,0 0,1 Higher education institutions 6,5 2,0 1,9 4,5 2,8 3,6 9,4 3,3 1,6 4,4 TVET 2,1 1,9 2,5 4,2 1,6 1,9 3,8 2,6 2,8 2,5 Other colleges 1,2 0,8 1,0 1,0 0,5 0,7 2,1 1,3 0,7 1,1 Home Schooling 0,4 0,3 0,0 0,4 0,1 0,0 0,1 0,1 0,0 0,1 Other 0,5 0,1 0,5 0,2 0,2 0,6 0,8 0,1 0,1 0,3 Source: General Household Survey 2015
Nature of the problems experienced by all learners who attended public schools per province, 2015 Lack of Teachers was the most common problem reported relative to other issues within the Eastern Cape. Bad facilities was also a concern Problems experienced in public school Lack of books Fees too high Classes too large Facilities bad Lack of teachers Poor teaching Teachers absent Teachers striking Province (Per cent) WC EC NC FS KZN NW GP MP LP SA 3,4 2,2 2,7 5,4 5,9 5,4 3,9 7,4 2,5 4,3 7,9 2,5 1,8 1,4 4,8 6,8 4,5 6,4 2,7 4,5 5,1 3,1 0,4 2,7 3,3 3,9 5,7 4,4 1,1 3,6 4,8 5,0 0,6 5,0 4,5 4,6 2,0 5,2 1,2 3,7 2,5 7,5 1,4 1,8 1,8 5,4 1,7 1,5 1,1 2,8 3,2 0,7 0,5 1,3 1,3 2,8 2,1 1,0 1,0 1,6 2,6 1,3 0,9 1,4 1,5 1,9 2,2 2,6 0,8 1,7 1,8 0,5 0,0 0,6 1,2 0,7 1,1 1,1 1,6 1,1 Source: General Household Survey 2015
Percentage of learners attending public schools who benefited from the school nutrition programme, 2010 2015 Almost three-quarters (76,2% ) of learners who attended public schools benefited from school feeding schemes. Learners in Limpopo (94,1%), Eastern Cape (89,2%),Mpumalanga (84,8%) and Northern Cape (84,8%) were the most likely to benefit from this programme
Housing and Service provision
Percentage distribution of households living in informal dwellings, 2002 2015 (SA) Between 2002 and 2015, households living in informal dwellings in South Africa increased slightly from 13,6% to 14,1% with a peak of 16,4% in 2006. 25% 20% 15% South Africa 14.1% 10% 5% 0% 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Source: General Household Survey 2015
Percentage of households living in informal dwellings, 2015 GP 21% LP 7% NC 12% NW 22% FS 16% MP 9% KZN 8% South Africa 14% WC 17% EC 7% The Northwest had the highest percentage of HH that were informal, EC and LP the lowest Source: General Household Survey 2015
Percentage distribution of households living in informal dwellings, 2002 2015 by Province 25% 25% 25% 20% 21% 22% 20% 20% 20% 15% 16% 14% 16% 15% 15% WC 17% 15% 11% 13% 12% 10% 9% 10% 9% 10% 8% 7% 7% 5% 5% 5% 7% 5% 0% 2002 2015 0% 2002 2015 0% 2002 2015 Source: GHS Series Volume VII Housing from a human settlement perspective GHS 2015
Percentage of households that received a government housing subsidy, 2002 and 2015 GP 4,5% LP 3,8% GP 13,2% LP 14,1% South Africa 6% NC 13,6% NW 7,0% FS 8,0% MP 6,9% KZN 4,7% South Africa 14% NC 17,5% NW 16,5% FS 28,0% MP 14,3% KZN 13,2% WC 6,4% EC 5,5% WC 20,5% EC 13,1% The Eastern Cape Province has expanded the percentage of Households that received the housing subsidy from 5,5% to 13,1%
The percentage of households connected to the mains electricity supply by province The percentage of South African households that were connected to the mains electricity supply increased from 77,1% in 2002 to 86% in 2015. 100% 90% 80% 93% 92% 90% 89% 88% 86% 84% 83% 82% 82% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% LP NC WC FS MP SA NW GP EC KZN Source: General Household Survey 2015
Rating of the quality of the electricity supply services, 2010-2015 The percentage of households in the country that rated electricity supply as good increased to 66,5% in 2014 before dropping to 60,2% in 2015. 90% 80% EC has seen consistent declining ratings of quality of electricity supply 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 10% 0% WC EC NC FS KZN NW GP MP LP RSA Source: General Household Survey 2015
Percentage of households with access to piped or tap water in their dwellings, off-site or on-site by province, 2002 2015 EC has seen a reversal of the gains made between 2002 and 2013, Which reached 80,5% before declining to 74,9% in 2015 100% 95% 90% 85% 80% 75% WC, 99.2 GP, 97.7 FS, 96.1 NW, 86.1 MP, 85.5 KZN, 84.2 LP, 78.8 EC, 74.9 70% 65% 60% 55% 50% 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Source: General Household Survey 2015
Percentage of households rating the quality of water services provided by the municipality as good, and those that reported water interruptions, by province, 2015 An inverse relationship between the perceived vs quality of services and the number of interruptions seems to exist. Quality Interruptions WC 86.4% 3.1% NW 76.8% 6.6% SA 62.0% 25.4% FS 57.5% 30.7% KZN EC GP 51.1% 49.4% 51.6% 36.1% 26.1% 37.8% NC MP LP 32.4% 40.2% 40.2% 50.8% 59.4% 60.9% LP MP NC GP EC KZNLP FSMP SA NCNWGP WCEC KZN FS SA NW WC Source: General Household Survey 2015
Percentage of households that have access to RDP standard sanitation per province, 2012 2015 vs Nationally, the percentage of households with access to RDP standard sanitation increased from 62,3% in 2002 to 80% in 2015. EC has shown significant improvement between 2012 and 2015 100 WC, 94.6 100 100 90 GP, 90.9 90 NC EC, 81.7 90 80 FS 81.1 80 KZN 77.3 80 70 70 EC 70 NW, 66.4 60 60 60 MP, 65.8 50 50 50 LP, 53.8 40 2012 2013 2014 2015 40 2012 2013 2014 2015 40 2012 2013 2014 2015
Number of consumer units using bucket toilets provided by the municipalities in each province: 2014 and 2015 Gauteng Limpopo North West Mpumalanga Northern Cape Free State KwaZulu-Natal Eastern Cape Eastern Cape saw a decrease in bucket toilet provision between 2014 and 2015 Western Cape No bucket toilet system provided by municipality in 2015 Source: Non-financial census of municipalities: 2015
Percentage of households whose refuse is removed by the municipality, 2015 GP 91,9% LP 24,0% South Africa 66,2% NW 59,4% MP 41,1% NC 71,8% FS 78,2% KZN 50,9% WC 91,2% EC 45,6% Source: General Household Survey 2015
The statistical insights show a variety of areas which explain the nature and circumstances of the people and the economy in Eastern Cape
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