​The South African Reserve Bank (the Bank) released South Africa’s IIP valued as at 31 December 2013, 31 March 2014 and 30 June 2014 on 30 September 2014. With the publication for the first time of the country’s IIP on a quarterly basis, South Africa now fully complies with the requirements of the Special Data Dissemination Standard of the International Monetary Fund and the G-20 Data Gaps Initiative regarding the dissemination of quarterly IIP statistics. The Bank will in future publish South Africa’s quarterly IIP statistics with a one-quarter lag.