Datasets provided for this challenge are from various sources including the Stats SA portal. The datasets include:

• New car sales (NAAMSA)
• Consumer Confidence (Bureau for Economic Research)
• CO2 Emissions (World Bank)
• Consumer Spending (SA Reserve Bank)
• Disposable Personal Income (SA Reserve Bank)
• Employed Persons (Statistics SA)
• Employment Rate (Statistics SA)
• Unemployment Rate (Statistics SA)
• GDP (World Bank, Statistics SA)
• Households Debt to Income (SA Reserve Bank)
• Household Saving Ratio (Statistics SA)
• Retail Sales (Statistics SA)

The input/training data for this challenge are the above datasets from March 2022 - February 2023.

If you would like to use an additional dataset, please submit your dataset to this form by 10 April 2023 and it will be added to the challenge by 17 April 2023.

Datasets submitted after 10 April will be vetted and if they are acceptable will be added to Mini Challenge #2.

You can use any dataset you download from these links.

• BER Business Confidence Index (https://www.ber.ac.za/BER%20Documents/RMB/BER-Business-Confidence-Index/?doctypeid=1050)
• Absa Purchasing Managers Index (https://www.ber.ac.za/BER%20Documents/Absa-PMI/?doctypeid=1066)
• BER Inflation Expectations (https://www.ber.ac.za/BER%20Documents/Inflation-Expectations/?doctypeid=1065)
• SARB Data (https://www.resbank.co.za/en/home/what-we-do/statistics/releases/selected-statistics)