A number of sceptical readers asked Africa Check to take a closer look at pronouncements made by the president at the ANC’s review of its manifesto. As they found, nuance also matters.
as answering the “why” and “how” questions, beyond the “what” question that quantitative data can answer.
This way of measuring poverty was crucial, Du Toit said, in addition to quantitative measures such as the SAMPI, because “qualitative information … tells you more about the lived relationships and processes that drive poverty and how it impacts on people’s lives”.While there has been a decline in multidimensional poverty between 2001 and 2016, Ramaphosa also claimed that this measure continues to decline.
However, Stats SA has not published SAMPI calculations since 2016. This was the most recent published estimate,“Stats SA will publish an updated SAMPI headcount linked to 2022 after the organisation publishes the census 2022 results,” he said.Until this data is published, this particular claim remains unproven.
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