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Electricity Generated and Available for Distribution 1985-2024

South Africa, 1985 - 2024
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zaf-statssa-egad-1985-2024-v1
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  • Identification
  • Version
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Sampling
  • Data Collection
  • Data Access
  • Contacts
  • Metadata production

    • Identification

    Survey ID number

    zaf-statssa-egad-1985-2024-v1
    Title

    Electricity Generated and Available for Distribution 1985-2024
    Country
    Name Country code
    South Africa zaf
    Study type

    Enterprise/Establishment Survey
    Abstract

    Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) conducts a monthly survey covering electricity undertakings and establishments (branches) in the electricity industry. This data contains monthly information regarding the volume of electricity units:
    Generated and distributed in South Africa;
    Flowing into and out from South Africa as measured by the metering systems at the South African borders;
    Delivered to provinces.
    Both unadjusted and seasonally adjusted data is included. In accordance with international practice, the indices are usually re-based every five years to a new base year. The base period for 2020-2025 is 2015. Some information for the current month may have been estimated due to late submission by respondents. These estimates will be revised when new data is available. The results of the monthly electricity survey are used to compile estimates of the gross domestic product (GDP) and its components, which are used in monitoring the state of the economy and formulation of economic policy.
    Kind of Data

    Time-Series
    Unit of Analysis

    Establishments

    Version

    Version Description

    v1: Edited, anonymised data for public distribution
    Version Date

    2024

    Scope

    Notes

    The data covers electricity undertakings and establishments conducting activities concerned with the generation and/or distribution of electricity (excluding the distribution of purchased electric energy). It includes electrical power installations, which, as subsidiary divisions of undertakings, produce electricity for regular use by these undertakings.

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    The survey has national coverage.
    Geographic Unit

    The data is at the level of province.

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name Affiliation
    Statistics South Africa Government of South Africa

    Sampling

    Sampling Procedure

    All statistical units are stratified by type of economic activity according to the Standard Industrial Classification of all Economic Activities (SIC) and measure of size, where measure of size is the volume of electricity generated by the electricity undertaking or establishment. All large undertakings or establishments (size group one) are completely enumerated. A sample is drawn from medium and small size undertakings and establishments by systematically selecting undertakings or establishments within each size category. An electricity undertaking or establishment with a total generating capacity of less than 500 kilowatts is excluded from the sample.

    Data Collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End
    1985-01 2024-06
    Mode of data collection
    • Internet and telephone
    Data Collection Notes

    The survey is conducted by email and telephone. Information is collected from a sample of electricity undertakings or establishments. As from September 2013, Eskom supplied additional data for independent power producers (IPPs) that were not in the original sample of establishments.

    Data Access

    Access authority
    Name Affiliation URL Email
    DataFirst University of Cape Town support.data1st.org support@data1st.org
    Access conditions

    Public access data for use under a Creative Commons CC-BY (Attribution-only) License
    Citation requirements

    Statistics South Africa. Electricity Generated and Available for Distribution 1985-2024 [dataset]. Version 1. Pretoria: StatsSA [producer], 2023. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25828/a6r1-t337

    Contacts

    Contacts
    Name Affiliation Email URL
    DataFirst Support University of Cape Town support@data1st.org www.support.data1st.org

    Metadata production

    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    DataFirst University of Cape Town Metadata producer
    Date of Metadata Production

    2024-08-06

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    Version 1
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