Malawi is already benefiting from the programmes of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) Committee on Statistical Matters (CCSM), the National Statistics Office (NSO) has said. NSO Commissioner Shelton Kanyanda said the country was the first to produce a food security analysis report jointly with Comesa and Statistics Norway. “We are the […]
Malawi’s headline inflation rate has fallen for a seventh consecutive month, easing to 20.01 per cent in August from 20.83 per cent in July, according to data from the National Statistical Office analysed by Chifi Mhango, chief economist at Don Consultancy Group. The rate has now declined 8.22 percentage points over the past year, from […]
Malawi’s latest inflation figures offer a neat headline for policymakers — but very little comfort for the people living through the country’s worst cost‑of‑living squeeze in years. A drop from 24.3% to 23.4% looks tidy in a report, yet it does not change the fact that most households are still battling rising prices, a weakened […]
Malawi’s year-on-year inflation rate has hit a record 7.6 per cent for December 2020 owing to rising food and non-food prices, published National Statistical Office (NSO) figures showed. The rate, which measures cost of living by reflecting how prices of general commodities increase in an economy, climbed by 0.3 % from 7.3 % in November. […]
Vice President Saulos Klaus Chilima, has appealed to stakeholders to utilise statistical information in planning, policy formulation, programming and governance. Chilima, who is also Minister of Economic Planning and Development, made the appeal in his brief statement made today as Malawi joins the rest of the African countries in celebrating this year’s African Statistics Day, […]
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has said the growing demand for official statistics continues to surpass the pace at which data is produced across all sectors. UNFPA Country Representative to Malawi, Young Hong said this on Friday during official launch of 2018 Population and Housing Census 14 Thematic Reports at Bingu International Conference Centre (BICC) […]
Officials from the National Statistics Office (NSO) have put on hold a survey following attacks over blood suckers myths. NSO spokesperson Kingsley Manda has confirmed that the biological and behavioural survey has been suspended until the issue of the blood suckers dies out. “The survey involves collection of blood samples in some districts. With the […]
Statistics gathered from the Census of Economic Activities 2019 indicate that there has been an increase in economic activity between the period 2016 and 2017. The National Statistical Office (NSO) conducted the first ever Census of Economic Activities (CEA) from November 2018 to April 2019 whose primary source of information were businesses operating in Malawi. […]
National Statistical Office (NSO) says official results of the 2018 population and housing census is expected to be released in early June. NSO spokesperson Kingsley Manda said the official results could not be released in April due to what he described as logistical problems as well as the elections. “The final official results of the […]
National Statistics Office (NSO) has released preliminary report of the recent population and housing census (PHC) which shows that the country’s population is sky-rocketing and has hit over 17.5 million, 35 percent increase in 10 years from 2008 to 2018. According to the results released Thursday in eastern city of Zomba , NSO report indicates […]
National Statistical Office (NSO) is set to release the results of the housing and population census. NSO spokesperson Kingsley Manda said the release of the results will be done at NSO offices in Zomba and would help the government plan for social and economic policies for the people. It is expected that the population will […]
Child poverty has reduced by 2.5 per cent but still remains the highest at 60.5 per cent according to an integrated household report which means children are more poor in Malawi than any other age group. The 2018 report cites rising cost of living and early marriages as the main reason pushing child poverty in […]
Human Rights Defenders have told the National Statistics Office (NSO) to pay some enumerators and census supervisors, months after the population and housing census was completed. Human Rights Defenders chairperson Timothy Mtambo said it was wrong for NSO to hire the enumerators and the supervisors for the census and fail to pay them. “We are […]
National Statistical Office (NSO) says it will use the police to recover all data tablets enumerators used during the population and housing census. This comes amid reports that some of them have declared that they will not hand them back to NSO after the census ended on Sunday in most parts of the country. NSO […]
National Statistics Office (NSO) has extended the population and housing census in some areas whose people could not be reached for the exercise. NSO commissioner Mercy Kanyuka said some areas were hard to reach whilst some people were not in their homes when the enumerators visited them but played down fears that this would have […]
The international community in the country and the National Statistical Office (NSO) have applauded Mangochi District Council for smooth progress of the Population and Housing Census (HPC) currently under way. German Ambassador Juergen Borsch, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) assistant representative Dorothy Nyasulu and NSO commissioner Mercy Kanyuka said they are impressed with the commitment […]
Officials from the National Statistics Office (NSO) will on Monday start to count each and every Malawian in a national census and population amid threats from enumerators that they would sabotage the process. In Kasungu, the enumerators say they have just been paid K20, 000 out of the agreed K120,000 for the week long training, […]
The National Statistics Office (NSO) has asked the general public not to miss out in the forthcoming 2018 Population and Housing Census as it is the right to be counted. Commissioner of Statistics at NSO Mercy Kanyuka made the call Friday in Lilongwe on the sidelines of handover ceremony of equipment for the census from […]