1/ Employment in the non-agricultural sectors.

2/ Sources of basic data : Labour force survey by Statistics South Africa.

3/ Remuneration per worker at current prices in the non-agricultural sectors.

4/ Includes the debt and liabilities of the former TBVC-countries and self-governing states that were assumed by the national government in terms of Section 230 of the second Amendment Bill of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, as well as the liability assumed for the payment of the debts incurred by the Republic of Namibia as contemplated in Subsection (1) of Section 52C of the Exchequer Act No 66 of 1975, as amended.

5/ Notes and coin in circulation outside the monetary sector plus all deposits of the private sector with the monetary sector.

7/ Notes and coin in circulation outside the SARB plus required reserve balances of banks and mutual banks with the SARB.

8/ The Reserve Bank disseminates all the main components of the balance of payments as prescribed by the fifth edition of the IMF’s "Balance of Payments Manual".

9/ Net receipts from current transfers as described in the fifth edition of the IMF’s "Balance of Payments Manual".

10/ Change in total net foreign reserves.

12/ Total gross foreign reserves of the Reserve Bank. Balance as at the end of the month.

13/ Monthly average exchange rate against the thirteen most important currencies.

14/ The mid-year estimates are based on the 2001 population census. The census for 2001 yielded an estimated population of 44.8 million people.

15/ Preliminary figures from South African Revenue Services; not adjusted for Balance of Payments purposes.

16/ Amounts recorded in the accounts of National Treasury are kept constant for the following three months.

17/ This information is obtained from a discussion document published by Statistics South Africa. For more information visit STATSSA.

18/ Components revised. See "Note on the revision of composite leading and coincident business cycle indicators" in the March 2004 Quarterly Bulletin. Previous and new indices were linked in January 1994.

Key

Quarters Q1 through Q4 apply to calendar years

SARB = South African Reserve Bank

sa = seasonally adjusted

STATS SA = Statistics South Africa

SARS = South African Revenue Service

nsa = not seasonally adjusted