Provincial Profile 2004 Limpopo Pali Lehohla Statistician-General Report No. 00-91-09 (2004) Statistics South Africa Published by Statistics South Africa, Private Bag X44, Pretoria 0001 © Statistics South Africa, 2006 Users may apply or process this data, provided Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) is acknowledged as the original source of the data; that it is specified that the application and/or analysis is the result of the user's independent processing of the data; and that neither the basic data nor any reprocessed version or application thereof may be sold or offered for sale in any form whatsoever without prior permission from Stats SA. Stats SA Library Cataloguing-in-Publication (CIP) Data Provincial Profile 2004: Limpopo / Statistics South Africa. Pretoria: Statistics South Africa, 2006 110p. [Report No. 00-91-09(2004)] ISBN 0-621-36368-5 1. Demography – Limpopo (South Africa) 2. Vital Statistics – Limpopo (South Africa) 3. Households – Limpopo (South Africa) 4. Education – Statistics – Limpopo (South Africa) 5. Public Health – Limpopo (South Africa) 6. Labour Markets – Limpopo (South Africa) 7. Migration, Internal – Limpopo (South Africa) 8. Emigration and Immigration – Limpopo (South Africa) 9. Crime Statistics – Limpopo (South Africa) 10. Gross State Product – Limpopo (South Africa) 11. Prices Indexes 12. Legislative Bodies – Limpopo (South Africa) I. Statistics South Africa II. Series (LCSH 16) A complete set of Stats SA publications is available at Stats SA Library and the following libraries: National Library of South Africa, Pretoria Division National Library of South Africa, Cape Town Division Library of Parliament, Cape Town Bloemfontein Public Library Natal Society Library, Pietermaritzburg Johannesburg Public Library Eastern Cape Library Services, King William's Town Central Regional Library, Polokwane Central Reference Library, Nelspruit Central Reference Collection, Kimberley Central Reference Library, Mmabatho This report is available on the Stats SA website: www.statssa.gov.za Copies are available from: Printing and Distribution, Statistics South Africa Tel: (012) 310 8044 (012) 310 8161 Fax: (012) 321 7381 E-mail: [email protected] Contents List of tables................................................................................................................................iii List of figures...............................................................................................................................v Map: South African provinces and provincial boundaries...................................................vii Executive summary.....................................................................................................................1 Objective ............................................................................................................................................ 1 Data sources ............................................................................................................................................ 1 Findings in the profile................................................................................................................................ 1 Extract from the Report of the Census Sub-committee to the South African Statistics Council on Census 2001 .............................................................................................4 Chapter 1: Demography ...........................................................................................................5 1.1 Population profile............................................................................................................... 5 1.2 Sex ratios............................................................................................................................ 9 1.3 Age distribution................................................................................................................ 11 1.4 Language.......................................................................................................................... 17 1.5 Religion............................................................................................................................ 20 1.6 Country of birth................................................................................................................ 23 1.7 Citizenship........................................................................................................................ 24 1.8 Disability.......................................................................................................................... 25 1.9 Urbanisation ..................................................................................................................... 27 Chapter 2: Vital statistics .......................................................................................................29 2.1 Births................................................................................................................................ 29 2.2 Deaths............................................................................................................................... 31 2.3 Marriages.......................................................................................................................... 34 2.4 Divorces ........................................................................................................................... 37 Chapter 3: Migration ..............................................................................................................39 3.1 Internal migration............................................................................................................. 39 3.2 International migration..................................................................................................... 41 Chapter 4: Health....................................................................................................................43 4.1 Public hospitals ................................................................................................................ 43 4.2 Hospital beds.................................................................................................................... 43 4.3 HIV/AIDS and malaria..................................................................................................... 44 Chapter 5: Education..............................................................................................................47 5.1 Educational attainment..................................................................................................... 47 5.2 Literacy ............................................................................................................................ 48 5.3 Schools and school data ................................................................................................... 49 5.4 Teaching personnel .......................................................................................................... 50 5.5 School attendance............................................................................................................. 51 5.6 Grade 12 pass rate ............................................................................................................ 52 5.7 Drop-out ........................................................................................................................... 54 Chapter 6: Safety and security...............................................................................................55 6.1 Number of police stations ................................................................................................ 55 6.2 Reported crimes ............................................................................................................... 55 Chapter 7: The labour market...............................................................................................59 7.1 Labour market status ........................................................................................................ 59 7.2 Formal and informal sector employment ......................................................................... 61 7.3 Industry and occupation of the employed ........................................................................ 61 7.4 Income of the employed................................................................................................... 63 7.5 Unemployment................................................................................................................. 63 Chapter 8: Households and household services ...................................................................65 8.1 Distribution of households by province ........................................................................... 65 8.2 Dwelling type................................................................................................................... 66 8.3 Female-headed households .............................................................................................. 67 8.4 Child-headed households ................................................................................................. 68 8.5 Energy .............................................................................................................................. 69 i 8.6 Water................................................................................................................................ 75 8.7 Toilet facilities ................................................................................................................