31% of South Africans aged 65 or more have funeral insurance. (AMPS2007B)

This week’s theme: Access to financial services

In 2000, 17.4% of South Africans were a members of a medical aid scheme. In 2007, this proportion had reduced to 14.9%. (AMPS2000,2007RA)

This week’s theme: Access to financial services

22% of those who personally own, use or maintain a car, station wagon, bakkie or minibus have short term insurance. (AMPS2007B)

This week’s theme: Access to financial services

56% of unbanked urban adults (16+) say there is no bank or ATM in the suburb/community where they live. (FutureFact 2007)

This week’s theme: Access to financial services

14% of South Africans have watched no TV in the past four weeks. (AMPS2007A)

This week’s theme: TV in SA

63% of adults who watched a DSTV channel yesterday would rather be outdoors than indoors. (AMPS2007B)

This week’s theme: TV in SA

Three million adults say they live in a household that has a DSTV decoder. 29% of these adults speak an African language (any of the official languages excluding English and Afrikaans) as their home language. (Source AMPS2007B)

This week’s theme: TV in SA

174,000 adults say that they watched the BBC Food channel yesterday. 41% of them are male. (AMPS2007B)

This week’s theme: TV in SA

70% of South African adults have tuned in to SABC 1 in the past 7 days. For SABC 2 the proportion is 58%, and for SABC 3, 45%. (AMPS2007A)

This week’s theme: TV in SA