This page outlines what travel-related dataflows we make available through EconData. “Travel” is a Category in EconData’s StatsSA Category Scheme. In these dataflow docs, we outline the dimensions in the series keys we use, and detail the codes used in those concepts.

Land Transport

This release contains results of the monthly survey of land transport, which covers both rail and road transportation of both passengers and freight. This survey is designed to obtain information regarding total payload transported (tonnage), income of commodities transported, and the gross income from freight transportation. For passenger transportation, information is collected on the number of passengers and the gross income from passenger transportation. Please click on this paragraph to show detail.

ID: LAND_TRANSPORT

Source dataset code: P7162

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Frequency: monthly

The data key suffix indicates seasonal adjustment: an N indicates that the series is neither seasonally adjusted nor calendar adjusted, and an S indicates that the series has seasonally adjusted data, and not calendar adjusted.

first dimension	series_name	unit_multiplier	unit_of_measure	source_id
LAN001	Total: Payload	Thousands	Tons	payl_totl
LAN002	Total: Income for freight transportation	Millions	Rand	incf_totl
LAN003	Transportation of agriculture and forestry primary products	Millions	Rand	inc_agri
LAN004	Transportation of primary mining and quarrying products	Millions	Rand	inc_ming
LAN005	Transportation of manufactured food, beverages and tobacco products	Millions	Rand	inc_food
LAN006	Transportation of textiles, clothing and leather products	Millions	Rand	inc_text
LAN007	Transportation of chemicals, coke, petroleum, rubber, plastic and other mineral products	Millions	Rand	inc_chem
LAN008	Transportation of basic metals and fabricated metal products	Millions	Rand	inc_metl
LAN009	Transportation of non-metallic products	Millions	Rand	inc_nonm
LAN010	Transportation of electrical machinery, transport machinery and equipment	Millions	Rand	inc_mach
LAN011	Transportation of motor vehicles, parts and accessories	Millions	Rand	inc_moto
LAN012	Transportation of paper and paper products	Millions	Rand	inc_papr
LAN013	Transportation of commercial products	Millions	Rand	inc_comm
LAN014	Transportation of used household and office products	Millions	Rand	inc_used
LAN015	Transportation of containers	Millions	Rand	inc_cont
LAN016	Transportation of parcels	Millions	Rand	inc_parc
LAN017	Transportation of other freight	Millions	Rand	inc_othf
LAN018	Passenger journeys	Thousands	Passengers	nops_totl
LAN019	Income for passenger transportation	Millions	Rand	incp_totl
LAN020	Income for road passenger transportation	Millions	Rand	inc_rail
LAN022	Payload for rail freight transportation	Thousands	Tons	railpayl
LAN023	Income for rail freight transportation	Millions	Rand	railincf
LAN024	Payload for road freight transportation	Thousands	Tons	roadpayl
LAN025	Income for road freight transportation	Millions	Rand	roadincf
LAN026	Passenger journeys for rail passenger transportation	Thousands	Passengers	railnops
LAN027	Passenger journeys for road passenger transportation	Thousands	Passengers	roadnops

Tourism and Migration

The information in this release pertains to arrivals into and departures from RSA, of both South African residents and foreign travelers, as recorded at all national border posts. Click on this paragraph to see some more information.

Not actively maintained!

ID: MIGRATION

Publication code: P0351

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Tourist Accommodation

The results presented in this publication are derived from the monthly survey of the tourist accommodation industry. This survey is based on a sample drawn from the 2023 statistical business register (SBR) that contains businesses registered for value-added tax (VAT). Click on this paragraph for more detail.

ID: TOURIST_ACCOMODATION

Publication code: P6410

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