On August 13-18, the 31st International Cartographic Conference took place in Cape Town. The event is organised by the South African National Committee of ICA. During the conference, the International Cartographic Exhibition took place, where the Geostatistics Portal won first place in the digital products category.

Short-term analysis of phenomena and processes taking place, among others, in the area of the labour market, wages and salaries, prices, basic areas of the national economy (agriculture, industry, construction, domestic market), transport and foreign trade, as well as the situation in selected countries of the world.

Basic information on volume production of major industrial products manufactured by entities with the number of persons employed 50 or more. The information relates to the production of finished products for sale, as well as for further processing inside the enterprise, produced from own and entrusted raw materials.

In August 2023, there was an improvement in both current and future consumer sentiment moods compared to the previous month. The current consumer confidence indicator, syn-thetically describing the current trends in individual consumption, was -22.3 which was by 2.6 p.p. higher in relation to last month.

Basic data and indicators describing the socio-economic situation of the country, presented in the form of data series – monthly, quarterly, annual – regarding, among others, national accounts, demographics, labour market, wages and salaries...

In the second quarter of 2023, economically active persons accounted for 58.2% of the population aged 15-89 years. Compared with the first quarter of 2023, the rate decreased by 0.2 pp., while compared with the second quarter of 2022, it increased by 0.3 pp.