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Tag: statistics

Blog post: COMMENT: South Africa’s poverty and income statistics fall victim to Covid-19

With South Africa’s government forced to review its budget due to the pandemic, an already cash-strapped Stats SA has had to cut a vital poverty and income survey. We should all be worried.

10:04 | 20 July 2020 (GMT)

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  • Coronavirus
  • covid-19
  • South Africa
  • statistics

Are 40% of South African women raped in their lifetime and only 8.6% of perpetrators jailed?

Claims

Two claims about rape statistics in South Africa
Source: Advocacy organisation Rape Crisis (February 2020)

checked

Verdict

One unproven, one misleading

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12:40 | 23 March 2020 (GMT)

  • health
  • rape
  • statistics
  • women

Is Nigeria’s unemployment rate 18.8%, as widely tweeted?

Job-seekers lie on the pitch after a stampede in Abuja National Stadium, where thousands of people came to apply for work at the Nigerian immigration department in March 2014. At least seven people were killed and dozens injured. Photo: AFP

Claim

"Nigeria's unemployment rate is 18.8%"
Source:
Tweet by Spectator Index account
(Feb 2018)

correct

Verdict

Rate was 18.8% in 2017's 3rd quarter

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07:37 | 7 March 2018 (GMT)

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  • employment
  • jobs
  • nigeria
  • statistics
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Factsheet: FACTSHEET: South Africa’s official poverty numbers

What proportion of South Africans live in poverty? How are the numbers calculated? And who is most vulnerable? This factsheet presents South Africa’s official poverty estimates.

08:39 | 15 February 2018 (GMT)

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  • poverty
  • statistics
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Do mothers & newborns run a higher risk of dying in Nairobi, as governor Sonko said?

Church members carry newborn twin girls to induct them as new members of the Neema indigenous church in February 2016 in Nairobi. Photo: AFP/FREDRIK LERNERYD

Kenya’s freshly elected representatives are full of plans and promises. Nairobi governor Mike Sonko pledged to improve health standards, saying mothers and newborns have a higher chance of dying in childbirth in his county than a far flung rural one.

12:58 | 24 August 2017 (GMT)

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  • health
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Are 70% of Kenyans who can work jobless? Union chief mangles numbers

Women work in Nairobi's Korogocho slum creating clothes and accessories for Ethical Fashion Africa, a not-for-profit group, on June 19, 2014. Ethical Fashion Africa is part of Ethical Fashion Initiative (EFI), a project built on a model of "mutual benefit" that aims to support poor communities by linking them up with fashion houses and distributors. Photo: AFP/ Nichole Sobecki

Unemployment remains a challenge to most African governments. Kenya’s no less, but debating solutions should rest on accurate information.

02:56 | 26 May 2017 (GMT)

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No, there is no ‘miracle recipe’ that cures diabetes

This March 2016 picture shows a solution for the treatment of severe hypoglycemia that may occur in diabetes and a stethoscope for display. Photo: AFP/Franck Fife

A Philippine doctor claims to have discovered a recipe – consisting of sweet peppers, eggs and sea salt – that eliminates diabetes “in five minutes”. But it has not been scientifically proven.

12:45 | 15 March 2017 (GMT)

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  • health
  • statistics
  • World Health Organisation
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Did Uganda receive more refugees daily in 2016 than many European nations did the whole year?

Newly arrived refugees from South Sudan sit in a bus at the Elegu Collection Centre in Amuru, Uganda, in July 2016. Photo: AFP/Isaac Kasamani

The top official of an international charity said Uganda received more refugees daily at the end of 2016 than many wealthy European countries did the entire year. Do the numbers add up?

10:00 | 7 March 2017 (GMT)

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incorrect

No data shows that 800,000 Nigerians live in South Africa

A man holds a Nigerian flag as thousands march through the streets of Johannesburg against the wave of xenophobic attacks that took place in South Africa in 2015. Photo: AFP/GIANLUIGI GUERCIA

As xenophobic violence rears its head again in South Africa, a widely quoted figure of how many Nigerians live in South Africa is completely unsupported.

02:46 | 21 February 2017 (GMT)

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  • migration
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incorrect

Claim that 13 million international migrants live in SA wildly incorrect

Asylum seekers at the newly renovated Marabastad Refugees Reception Centre, which was renamed the Desmond Tutu Refugees Reception Centre in February 2017. Photo: Elmond Jiyane, GCIS

A South African political party leader’s incorrect claim that 13 million foreign-born migrants live in the country is in part based on a debunked claim shared by an investigative television show.

01:16 | 21 February 2017 (GMT)

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