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 - May 2023.

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

Datasets submitted after 10 July will be vetted and if they are acceptable will be added to Mini Challenge #5.

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)
• CPI September 2022 release (https://www.statssa.gov.za/publications/P0141/P0141September2022.pdf)
• All data on Stats SA
• Open Price Engine( https://www.openpricengine.com/)
• Global historical CPI data (https://stats.oecd.org/index.aspx?DataSetCode=PRICES_CPI#)
• All basic fuel price (https://www.energy.gov.za/files/esources/petroleum/petroleum_arch.html)
• Petroleum products (https://www.sapia.org.za/old-fuel-prices/)
• Selected Historical Rates (https://www.resbank.co.za/en/home/what-we-do/statistics/key-statistics/selected-historical-rates)
• Economic data source (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/searchresults?st=south+africa&404-search-button=Search)
• World Bank (https://data.worldbank.org/country/south-africa)
• Trading Economics South Africa Inflation Rate (https://tradingeconomics.com/south-africa/inflation-cpi)
• FNB lending rates: https://www.fnb.co.za/rates/LendingRates.html)
• Fuel prices (https://aa.co.za/fuel-pricing/)
• Historical Data: South African Benchmark Overnight Rate (SABOR) (https://www.resbank.co.za/en/home/publications/publication-detail-pages/Financial-Markets/markets-data/SABOR-Historical-Data/Sabor)
• Historical USD to ZAR: https://ru.investing.com/currencies/usd-zar-historical-data
• South African News site: https://www.wasbier.com/