Provincial Profile 2004 Free State Pali Lehohla Statistician-General Report No. 00-91-04 (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: Free State / Statistics South Africa. Pretoria: Statistics South Africa, 2006 137p. [Report No. 00-91-04 (2004)] ISBN 0-621-36363-4 1. Demography – Free State (South Africa) 2. Vital Statistics – Free State (South Africa) 3. Households – Free State (South Africa) 4. Education – Statistics – Free State (South Africa) 5. Public Health – Free State (South Africa) 7. Labour Markets – Free State (South Africa) 8. Migration, Internal – Free State (South Africa) 9. Emigration and Immigration – Free State (South Africa) 10. Crime Statistics – Free State (South Africa) 11. Gross State Product – Free State (South Africa) 12. Prices Indexes 13. Legislative Bodies – Free State (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 ....................................................................................................................... vi Map 1: Provincial boundaries of South Africa .............................................................................ix Map 2: District council municipal boundaries of Free State .......................................................x 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 ..................................................................................... 6 Chapter 1: Demography ................................................................................................ 7 1.1 Population profile ....................................................................................................7 1.2 Sex ratios..................................................................................................................10 1.3 Age distribution .......................................................................................................11 1.4 Age dependency.......................................................................................................16 1.5 Language..................................................................................................................18 1.6 Religion....................................................................................................................20 1.7 Country of birth .......................................................................................................21 1.8 Citizenship ...............................................................................................................22 1.9 Disability..................................................................................................................23 1.10 Urbanisation.............................................................................................................24 Chapter 2: Vital statistics .............................................................................................. 26 2.1 Births........................................................................................................................26 2.2 Deaths ......................................................................................................................27 2.3 Marriages .................................................................................................................31 2.4 Divorces...................................................................................................................33 Chapter 3: Migration ..................................................................................................... 35 3.1 Internal migration ....................................................................................................35 3.2 International migration ............................................................................................36 Chapter 4: Health........................................................................................................... 38 4.1 Public hospitals........................................................................................................38 4.2 Private hospitals.......................................................................................................39 4.3 Primary healthcare ...................................................................................................39 4.4 Health personnel ......................................................................................................40 4.5 Visits to health institutions or health workers..........................................................40 4.6 Nutrition...................................................................................................................41 4.7 HIV prevalence........................................................................................................42 4.8 Causes of death ........................................................................................................46 4.9 Tuberculosis.............................................................................................................47 4.10 Medical aid coverage...............................................................................................47 Chapter 5: Education..................................................................................................... 49 5.1 Educational attainment ............................................................................................49 5.2 Schools.....................................................................................................................50 5.3 School attendance ....................................................................................................51 5.4 Educators .................................................................................................................53 5.5 Classrooms...............................................................................................................54 5.6 Tertiary education....................................................................................................54 5.7 Grade 12 pass rate....................................................................................................55 5.8 Drop-out...................................................................................................................57 5.9 Adult Basic Education and Training (ABET)..........................................................57 i Chapter 6: Safety and security...................................................................................... 60 6.1 Police stations ..........................................................................................................60 6.2 Crime .......................................................................................................................62 6.3 Violent crimes..........................................................................................................62 6.4 Farm attacks.............................................................................................................63 6.5 Attacks on members of the SAPS, 2000–2003........................................................65 6.6 Murder .....................................................................................................................65 6.7 Attempted murder, assault GBH and common assault ............................................68 6.8 Malicious damage to property .................................................................................70