JSSA.
The South African Statistical Quarterly
Lead · National Synthesis

A satellite account for the country's most contested resource: human work.

For the first time, the Jobs & Skills Satellite Account binds together South Africa's official quarterly GDP, the Quarterly Labour Force Survey, the Quarterly Employment Statistics, provincial accounts and the supply-and-use tables — and overlays them with training intake, certification, placement and twelve-month retention. Every figure on this site carries a provenance badge. Every metric opens a panel disclosing its source, series breaks and computation. Nothing here is opaque.

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In this issue

Eleven chapters, sixty-six metrics, thirty-six sheets

Editorial

Why a satellite account, and why now?

South Africa's labour market crisis is, at its core, a measurement crisis. The Quarterly Labour Force Survey tells us how many people are out of work. The P0441 release tells us what the country produces. The Sector Education and Training Authorities tell us how many people are being trained. None of these systems speak to each other.

A satellite account sits beside the System of National Accounts and adds the missing dimensions — in this case, the human-capital production function. By bridging ISIC-4 industries, SIC-7 codes and the OQSF qualification framework, we can finally ask: which Rand of training, in which province, in which trade, produced a twelve-month-retained job?

This platform is the public-facing layer of that work. It is not a final report. It is an instrument. Drag the time series. Open any metric. Inspect the raw rows. Argue with the numbers. That is the whole point.