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Percentage of health professional posts vacant

Definition	Percentage of all health sector (professional) posts that are vacant. Note that for data prior to 2002, data is not available by occupational category, so there is no way of knowing in which occupations the greatest shortages exist.
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Percentage of health professional posts vacant [Definition]
	EC	FS	GP	KZN	LP	MP	NC	NW	WC	ZA
2001 Public sector	[1] 83.9	48.1	48.1	34.2	44.2	36.5	45.9	49.1	34.3	[2] 57.3
2002 Public sector	51.6	48.9	47.4	35.6	30.1	38.6	45.2	50.5	34.7	[3] 42.5
2003 Public sector	28.4	40.7	31.9	24.5	13.4	67.4	27.3	33.0	13.8	[4] 31.1
2005 Public sector	26.6	40.5	26.7	29.6	15.8	43.9	35.1	23.1	8.1	[5] 27.2
2006 Public sector	32.6	40.4	24.2	32.4	16.4	43.1	37.8	23.1	16.9	[6] 29.0
2007 Public sector	33.3	41.9	32.8	35.6	20.0	42.5	41.8	41.9	18.7	[7] 33.3
2008 Public sector	48.0	50.7	28.1	33.3	42.1	37.6	36.3	11.6	23.3	[8] 35.7
EC: Eastern Cape FS: Free State GP: Gauteng KZN: KwaZulu-Natal LP: Limpopo MP: Mpumalanga NC: Northern Cape NW: North West WC: Western Cape ZA: South Africa

It is generally considered that this data may be highly inaccurate. According to Eastern Cape HR personnel (Chauke Ngoma) the number of health sector posts in the Eastern Cape as at 13/03/2002 was Filled: 29691 Vacant: 16805 Total: 46496 Percentage vacant: 36.1% Investigation and confirmation of data is being undertaken.
PERSAL: PERSAL Personnel Administration System
Local copy: http://www.hst.org.za/indicators/HumanResources/PERSAL/
Extracted 2001-11-30
PERSAL: PERSAL Personnel Administration System
Local copy: http://www.hst.org.za/indicators/HumanResources/PERSAL/
Extracted 2002-09-30
PERSAL: PERSAL Personnel Administration System
Local copy: http://www.hst.org.za/indicators/HumanResources/PERSAL/
Extracted 2003-19-30
PERSAL: PERSAL Personnel Administration System
Local copy: http://www.hst.org.za/indicators/HumanResources/PERSAL/
Extracted 2005-05-31
PERSAL: PERSAL Personnel Administration System
Local copy: http://www.hst.org.za/indicators/HumanResources/PERSAL/
Extracted 2006-03-31
PERSAL: PERSAL Personnel Administration System
Local copy: http://www.hst.org.za/indicators/HumanResources/PERSAL/
Extracted 2007-03-31.
PERSAL: PERSAL Personnel Administration System
Local copy: http://www.hst.org.za/indicators/HumanResources/PERSAL/