1.1 million South Africans have participated in a jogging/running event in the past 12 months. About 14,000 of them will be running the Comrades Marathon on Sunday. (AMPS2006A, IOL)

This week’s theme: South Africa at leisure

Of the people who have had some form of alcohol in the past 7 days, 35% are women. Of the people who are in South African Prisons or correctional institutions, 4% are women.(Census 2001 and AMPS2006A)

This week’s theme: South Africa at leisure

Of all the metropolitan areas in South Africa, Pietermaritzburg has the largest proportion of residents (50%) who say they regularly cook for pleasure. The Vaal metropolitan area has the highest percentage of residents (7%) on diet. (AMPS2006A)

This week’s theme: South Africa at leisure

3.5 million South Africans say they go to nightclubs/discos/raves at least monthly. One quarter of these revellers are aged 35 or more. (AMPS2006A)

This week’s theme: South Africa at leisure

72% of South African women are interested in Gospel music. For men the proportion is 49%. (AMPS2006A)

This week’s theme: South Africa at leisure

The average earnings of government workers in the community, social and personal services industries (89% of the workers) is around R5,800 per month. For private sector workers in those industries it is about R4,900. (Labour Force Survey 2006)

This week’s theme: Public service workers

89% of government workers are in the community, social and personal services industries, comprising of roughly three quarters of workers in those industries. (Labour Force Survey 2006)

This week’s theme: Public service workers

One half on the non-unionised governement workers earn less than R3,500 per month. For unionised government workers, the figure is one quarter. (Labour Force Survey 2006)

This week’s theme: Public service workers

Two thirds of the local, provincial and national government workers are union members. (Labour Force Survey 2006)

This week’s theme: Public service workers

There are 1.6 million people employed by government (local, provincial and national). A further 240,000 work for a government enterprise (Transnet, Telkom, etc) (Labour Force Survey 2006)

This week’s theme: Public service workers