The purpose of this Act is to advance the planning, production, analysis, documentation, storage, dissemination and use of official and other statistics by providing for—
(b) | the respective functions of the Statistician-General, the Council and the Minister and their interrelations; |
(c) | co-ordination between Statistics South Africa and other organs of state that produce official or other statistics; |
(i) | the users of such and other statistics in the government, other sectors of society and the public at large; |
(ii) | the respondents supplying the information that results in official and other statistics; |
(e) | liaison with international and regional organisations that— |
(i) | request official statistics; |
(ii) | make recommendations about the standardisation, classification, collection, processing, analysis and dissemination of statistics. |