Contents: Introduction -- ABC of interpretating economic data -- Averages -- BA rate -- Balance of payments -- Base period of a time series or index -- Business cycles -- Consumer price index (CPI) -- Cyclical variation of a time series -- Data revisions -- Deflating a time series -- Exchange rate I -- Exchange rate II -- Forecasting economic activity -- Foreign trade (and foreign reserves) -- Gold -- Government sector in national accounts -- Gross domestic expenditure -- Gross domestic product estimation -- Gross domestic product: Problems -- Gross domestic product: Real -- Implicit price deflators -- Index numbers I: Introduction -- Index number II: Calculation -- Inflation rate: Calculation -- Interest rates: Calculation -- Interest rates: Capital market -- Interest rate: Money market -- International comparisons of economic data -- Investment, Depreciation and capital stock -- Labour statistics -- Measuring the performance of the economy: A Summary monetary aggregates -- National accounting concepts -- Per capita data -- Price indices -- Production price index (PPI) -- Production: Sectoral data -- Purchasing power parity (PPP) -- Rates of exchange (or growth rates) -- Rates of change: Tabulation -- Ratios -- Residual items -- Sales data -- Seasonal adjustment -- Share price indices and other stock exchange concepts -- Sources of South African economic data -- Technical issues -- Terms of trade -- Time series I: Frequency of observations -- Time series II: Components of a time series -- Units of measurement -- Weighted growth rate: Calculation -- Presentation of economic data -- Appendix A: Tabulating data -- Appendix B: Graphical presentation -- Selected references -- Index of basic concepts.