Available Data

User Guide > Available Data

Below we list the datasets hosted in EconData. Dataflow IDs (used in the R package) are given in monospace font after each dataflow name. The h1 headings comprise category schema (mostly reflecting data providers); the first bullet level comprises categories, and the second bullet level comprises dataflows. (Sometimes we split up a dataset into multiple dataflows if it is too large, for which we use a third bullet hierarchy below.)

Statistics South Africa (StatsSA)

These monthly dataflows are usually released on EconData within three minutes of their publication by StatsSA.

  • Primary Sector
    • Mining MINING
  • Secondary Sector
    • Electricity Production ELECTRICITY
    • Manufacturing MANUFACTURING
  • Judiciary
    • Civil Cases for Debt CIVIL_CASES
    • Liquidations and Insolvencies LIQUIDATIONS
  • Price Indicies (Inflation)
    This category is duplicated in the Prices and Inflation category scheme as well.
    • CPI Analytical Series CPI_ANL_SERIES
    • CPI COICOP 5-digits CPI_COICOP_5 (subscriber-only)
      The Classification of Individual Consumption According to Purpose (COICOP) is the international reference classification of household expenditure.
    • CPI COICOP 8-digits CPI_COICOP_8 (subscriber-only)
    • CPI Weights CPI_WEIGHTS (subscriber-only)
    • Producer Price Index PPI
    • Residential Property Price Indicies RPPI
  • Travel
    • Land Transport LAND_TRANSPORT
    • Tourism and Migration MIGRATION
    • Tourist Accommodation TOURIST_ACCOMMODATION
  • Trade
    • Motor Trade MOTOR_TRADE
    • Retail Trade RETAIL
    • Wholesale Trade WHOLESALE
  • Human Capital
    • Regional Population Data POPULATION_DATA_REG
    • SARB Population Data POPULATION_DATA
    • Quarterly Labour Force Survey QLFS (subscriber-only)

Prices and Inflation

  • StatsSA
    • CPI Analytical Series CPI_ANL_SERIES
    • CPI COICOP 5-digits CPI_COICOP_5 (subscriber-only)
    • CPI COICOP 8-digits CPI_COICOP_8 (subscriber-only)
    • CPI Weights CPI_WEIGHTS (subscriber-only)
    • Producer Price Index PPI
    • Residential Property Price Indicies RPPI
  • Central Energy Fund
    • Retail and Basic Fuel Prices FUELPRICES

Public Finance and Accounts

Reports on aggregate balance sheets and government budgets. Public finance assesses government revenue and expenditure of the public authorities and adjustments that are made. It includes accounting, budgeting and debt, at various geospatial levels.

  • National Treasury of South Africa
    Subscriber-only. The National Treasury is responsible for managing South Africa’s national government finances.
    • National Budget
      • Government Main Budget GOVTBUDGET
      • Main Budget Estimate of National Revenue GOVTREVENUE
      • Consolidated Transfers (Economic Classification) GOVTTRANSFERS
      • Consolidated Government (Economic Classification) GOVT_CON_ECON
      • Consolidated Government Budget Balance GOVT_CON_BUDGET
      • Government Debt GOVTDEBT
      • Government Contingent Liabilities GOVTGUARANTEES
      • Fiscal Year GDP GOVT_GDP
    • National Budget Annexures
      • Consolidated budget annexures GOVTANNEX_CONS
      • Provincial budget annexures GOVTANNEX_PROV
    • Provincial Budgets GOVTPROV
    • Fiscal Year GDP GOVT_GDP
  • Accounts from StatsSA
    • National Accounts NATL_ACC
    • Regional Accounts NATL_ACC_REG
  • Within this Public Finance and Accounts category scheme, we tag two SARB dataflows in this SARB category, which are also tagged in the SARB category scheme, under Data by Sector. Please refer to that web page.
    • Fiscal Sector FISCAL_SECTOR
    • National Accounts NATL_ACC_SARB

Banking Sector Data (Basel Regulatory Reporting)

Subscriber-only.

  • BA100-series (financial returns)
    • BA100 Bank Balance Sheet (IFRS) BA100
    • DI100 Bank Balance Sheet (IFRS) (pre-2008) DI100
    • BA120 Bank Income Statement (IFRS) BA120
  • BA200 (Credit Risk)
    • BA200 Bank Credit Risk Exposure BA200
    • DI200 Bank Income Statement (IFRS) (pre-2008) DI200
  • BA300-series (Liquidity Risk)
    • BA325 Bank Selected Risk Exposure BA325
  • BA700 (Capital Adequacy)
    • BA700 Bank Capital Adequacy BA700
  • BA900 (balance sheets)
  • National Credit Regulator
    • Credit Bureau Monitor (CBM) NCR_CBM
    • Consumer Credit Market Report (CCMR) NCR_CCMR

South African Reserve Bank (SARB)

Unless otherwise stated, we use the SARB API as our data source. Most of these dataflows (Data by Sector; Indicators; Rates) are automatically staged every weekday (a.k.a. “unreleased” on EconData), and released on the 1st of every month.

  • Data by sector
    SARB reports on aggregate assets and government transactions, including government income and expenditure.
    • External Sector EXTERNAL_SECTOR
    • Financial Sector FINANCIAL_SECTOR
    • Fiscal Sector FISCAL_SECTOR
    • National Accounts NATL_ACC_SARB
  • Indicators
    • Business Cycles BUSINESS_CYCLES
    • Other Macroeconomic Indicators OTHER_INDICATORS
  • MPC Forecasts
    • SARB MPC Forecasts MPC (subscriber-only)
  • Rates
    • CPD Interest Rates CPD_RATES
    • Market Rates MARKET_RATES
  • Quarterly Bulletin
    • 1. Money and Banking QB_MONBANK
    • 2. Capital Market QB_CAPMARK
    • 3. Public Finance QB_PUBLFIN
    • 4. External Economic Accounts QB_BALNPAY
    • 5. National Accounts QB_NATLACC
    • 6. General Economic Indicators QB_BUSCYCL

International

This category on EconData supplies data from international sources.

  • International Monetary Fund
    • World Economic Outlook WEO
      This contains data from 213 (international) reference areas across 470 economic concepts.
  • World Bank
    The most important ~600 indicators, across 100 countries.

Codera

Forecast subscribers have access to forecasts from Codera’s forecast suite.

  • Financial Markets
    • Foreign Exchange Rate Forecasts FX_FCAST (premium subscription)
      Codera publishes foreign exchange rate forecasts for numerous currency pairs. Each currency pair is estimated by seven different models, and weekly forecasts are released every Friday morning. These forecasts form part of Codera’s comprehensive foreign exchange rate offering.
  • Prices and Inflation
    • Disaggregated Inflation Model (DIM) (premium subscription)
      Disaggregated inflation forecast of the CPI COICOP 5-digit data, including headline and core inflation.

Association for Savings and Investment South Africa

The Association for Savings and Investment South Africa (ASISA) represents the collective interests of the country’s asset managers, collective investment scheme management companies, linked investment service providers, multi-managers and life insurance companies. EconData hosts key series provided publicly by ASISA. Subscriber-only.

Web Design

Note that the search bar on the top right can be used as a global EconData search (given that we develop enough detail in our User Guide)!

We follow some standard methods when designing this User Guide.

  • We often provide an HTML anchor just below dataflow headings, equivalent to their dataflow ID, that automatically expands the details when used. Please look for the <a></a> elements in our HTML, to see our anchors.
  • We hide copious amounts of detail within collapsible divs, to keep things organized. Please click on the paragraph summaries, which introduce the sections, to display or hide the detail.
  • We have provided breadcrumbs.
  • The theme is lightweight and fast.
  • We improve this website every week. Some things on our task list are:
    • We need to bulk out some dataflows that currently have no detail.
    • We want to give detail about our EconData Concepts, and also we want to list all the extra attributes for each dataset.
    • We want a well-defined, prominent, ordered list of training pages, for onboarding new visitors.