{"id":965341,"date":"2024-07-11T18:28:28","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T18:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=965341"},"modified":"2024-07-11T18:28:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T18:28:28","slug":"statssa-defends-census-2022-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/statssa-defends-census-2022-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Stats SA defends census 2022 results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Statistics SA has labelled a report that says its census 2022 results do not meet standards, as unfounded and misleading.<\/p>\n<p>This follows a technical report commissioned by the Medical Research Council. The report says the Stats SA&#8217;s 2022 census population estimate of 62-million people is overstated by a million people and that there are material discrepancies at district and municipal level.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued earlier on Thursday, Stats SA firmly denies claims that Census 2022 figures should be treated as estimates due to undercounting issues.<\/p>\n<p>Stats SA further says it uses the Post Enumeration Survey which is quality control measure consistently applied in all democratic censuses.<\/p>\n<p>It insists this method helps detect and rectify any errors, ensuring the reliability of the data.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Questions about accuracy of Census 2022: Prof Tom Moultrie:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wXIXFcrz_N4?si=mcK9zG8rhXmzEKZi\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stats SA firmly denies claims that Census 2022 figures should be treated as estimates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":965342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/965342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}