{"id":193650,"date":"2021-06-30T12:33:20","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T10:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/stats-sa-suspends-in-person-data-collection\/"},"modified":"2021-06-30T12:33:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T10:33:20","slug":"stats-sa-suspends-in-person-data-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/stats-sa-suspends-in-person-data-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Stats SA suspends in-person data collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202106\/statssa.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) has announced the suspension of in-person data collection after President Cyril Ramaphosa this week moved the country to Adjusted Alert Level 4 lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes three months after the national statistical agency resumed limited field visits across the country after these were stopped in March last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll face-to-face data collection methods are suspended as part precautionary measures to prevent transmission of COVID-19. The rising infections require all of us to remain vigilant and follow all the protocols,\u201d said Statistician-General Risenga Maluleke.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Stats SA has also taken a decision to delay the start of Pilots Census enumeration.<\/p>\n<p>However, telephonic data collection for all household surveys in order to provide credible statistics to the nation will continue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot overstate the importance of continuing with data collection. Our data ensures that evidence based decision-making is used in policy formulation,\u201d said Maluleke.<\/p>\n<p>The agency, will instead use alternative interviewing methods, including computers-assisted telephonic interviewing (CATI) and computer-assisted web interviewing (CAWI). This will protect both households and field workers against COVID-19 infection.<\/p>\n<p>Stats SA in the statement appealed to sampled households to cooperate with the National Statistics office by participating in all statistical surveys. \u2013&nbsp;<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) has announced the suspension of in-person data collection after President Cyril Ramaphosa this week moved the country to Adjusted Alert Level 4 lockdown. The move comes three months after the national statistical agency resumed limited field visits across the country after these were stopped in March last year. \u201cAll face-to-face [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[38678],"class_list":{"0":"post-193650","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-sanews","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/stats-sa-suspends-in-person-data-collection.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}