38% of South African adults are saving for an emergency. 3% are saving for retirement. (FinScope 2006)

This week’s theme: Financial services in South Africa

Of South Africa’s home owners, 34% inherited their home. 8% used a mortgage bond to finance it. (FinScope 2006)

This week’s theme: Financial services in South Africa

54% of South Africa’s car owners insure their vehicles. 5% of cellphone owners insure their cellphones. (FinScope 2006)

This week’s theme: Financial services in South Africa

17.4% of South Africans are clients of ABSA Bank, the most popular of all financial services providers. (AMPS2006A)

This week’s theme: Financial services in South Africa

Two thirds of grocery shoppers do one bulk shop per month (with some top-ups). Many customers are not particularly loyal to one supermarket chain, and do their monthly bulk shopping at various stores (AMPS2006A)

This week’s theme: Shopping in South Africa

Shoprite has 6.6 million customers with a per-capita income of R600 per month or less, more than Pick’n'Pay, Spar and Woolorths combined. (AMPS2006A)

This week’s theme: Shopping in South Africa

4% of South Africans purchased a small appliance from Game in the past 12 months, about two and a half times as many as at the next post popular store, Clicks. (AMPS2006A)

This week’s theme: Shopping in South Africa

37% of South African adults usually purchase their groceries and/or toileteries from Shoprite. Spaza shops, taken as a group, are next biggest, at 31%. (AMPS2006A)

This week’s theme: Shopping in South Africa

15.3% of South Africans purchased clothing at Jet in the past 3 months. Next highest is Edgars at 10.2%. (AMPS2006A)

This week’s theme: Shopping in South Africa

There are 8.99 million workers aged 15 – 65 in the formal sector. 43% earn R2,500 or less per month. (LFS 2006)

This week’s theme: Workers Day