| Africa (1976) |
Agricultural censuses (Union/RSA), 1911–1950 and later, as reproduced via Agrekon Vol. 9 No. 2 April 1970 |
1911–1950 |
Supplies counts of ploughs, threshing machines, tractors and lorries and fertiliser tonnage to show growth in mechanisation and commercialisation. |
| Africa (1976) |
Report on Agricultural and Pastoral Production 1972-73, Agricultural Census No. 46 |
1973 |
Gives holdings by size group at 31 August 1973 to show concentration of land area. |
| Author not named in text (MSc candidate (2012) |
Agricultural Census (1958, 1992, 1998) |
1936-1998 |
Provides numbers of farms and farm area, wheat prices and total agricultural debt; the 1958 census also cited for rationing context. |
| Binswanger and Deininger (1993) |
Agricultural Census for the Union, 1918 |
1918 |
Cited in a note as the data underlying the claim that reserve production met only 45% of subsistence needs in 1918. |
| Bromberger (1978) |
Agricultural Censuses (casual labour on White farms) |
annual |
Measures casual farm labour at a point in time each year, which limits employment estimates for White agriculture. |
| Conradie et al. (2009) |
Farm (Agricultural) Censuses of 1952, 1956, 1960, 1965, 1971, 1976, 1981, 1988, 1993 and 2002, magisterial district level data for the Western Cape |
1952-2002 (10 census years) |
Supplies the district-level physical and value data on outputs and inputs from which the Tornqvist-Theil TFP indices are built. |
| De Klerk (1984a) |
Agricultural census data on permanent farm workers in the region (1969 and 1978) |
1969-1978 |
Shows permanent farm workers in the region fell only from about 30,000 to 26,000, much less than proportionately to harvest-related jobs. |
| De Klerk (1984b) |
RSA Department of Statistics, Agricultural Census No. 49, 1976, Report on Agricultural and Pastoral Production, part 4, Table 3 |
1976 |
Population distribution of farms by size to assess over-representation of large farms in the sample. |
| De Klerk (1984b) |
RSA Department of Statistics, Census of Agricultural and Pastoral Production, 1978, Report 06-01-14 (Tables 3.2, 3.4, 4.1) |
1978 (year ended 31 August 1978) |
Number of farms in the districts, and total cash and ration wages and number of domestic workers, used to estimate domestic wages. |
| De Klerk (1990) |
Annual agricultural census data used by the Department of Agricultural Economics and Marketing (land valuation) and de Jager (1973) perpetual inventory method |
1970-1988 |
Farmers' estimates of land value underpin the capital stock series, with Appendix A analysing breaks in the series. |
| Fedderke and Simkins (2004) |
Agricultural censuses 1918, 1925, 1930, 1937 and 1945 |
1918-1945 |
Source of agricultural employment data, with the caveat that months of collection differed. |
| Hendrie (1976a) |
Report on Agricultural and Pastoral Production 1964/65, Agricultural Census No. 39 |
1964/65 |
Source for 1965 employment and earnings by race and province in Table 8. |
| Hendrie (1976a) |
Report on Agricultural and Pastoral Production 1968/69, Agricultural Census No. 43 |
1968/69 |
Source for 1969 employment and earnings by race and province in Table 8. |
| Hendrie (1976a) |
Report on Agricultural and Pastoral Production 1970/71, Agricultural Census No. 44, Report No. 06-01-08 |
1970/71 |
Source for 1971 crop, fruit tree and livestock totals (Table 5), farming unit counts and employment series. |
| Hendrie (1976a) |
Report on Agricultural and Pastoral Production 1972/73, Agricultural Census No. 46, Report No. 06-01-10 |
1972/73 (31 August 1973) |
Source for farming units by size group, employment by race and region, and average monthly wage deviations (Tables 3, 4, 6, 9-11). |
| Hendrie (1976b) |
Agricultural Census No. 46 (1972/3), Report No. 06-01-10 |
1972/3 (also 1973 wage estimate) |
Used to describe the census labour coverage (employment and earnings) and to compute the implausible average domestic wage of R6,86 per month. |
| Hendrie (1976b) |
Agricultural Census series (e.g. Nos. 39, 44, 45, 46) and publication-lag table |
1964/5-1972/3 |
Publication dates are tabulated to show a lag of more than two years before census results appear. |
| Hendrie (1976b) |
Department of Statistics, Report on Agricultural and Pastoral Production 1970/1, Agricultural Census No. 44 |
1960-1971 |
One of three sources for the Table 3 employment series 1960-1974, which shows gaps in the data. |
| Hindson (1978) |
Agricultural and population censuses (counts of casual farm workers and wages) |
1960-1970s |
Provide counts of casual workers and total annual wages, used with regular workers' wage rates to compute full-time equivalent casual employment. |
| Horrell et al. (1972) |
Agricultural Census 1959/60 (as compared in Financial Mail article) |
1959/60 |
Baseline for farm population compared with the 1969 Agricultural Union survey. |
| Houghton and Dagut (n.d.) |
Agricultural Census 1918 (U.G. 53-1919) |
1917-18 |
Provides number and tenure of farms, area, crops and stock for 1918. |
| Knight (1976a) |
Agricultural Census / Report on Agricultural and Pastoral Production (1953/4 to 1972/3, incl. 1958-59, 1968-69, 1970-71) |
1953-1973 |
Series on regular, casual and domestic farm employees and earnings, used to assess farm employment trends and reliability. |
| Knight (1976b) |
Agricultural Census / Report on Agricultural and Pastoral Production (1953/4-1972/3; 1958-59; 1968-69; 1970-71) |
1953/4-1972/3 |
Series of regular and casual African farm employees and earnings, used to trace employment in White agriculture and shown to be erratic and unreliable. |
| Liebenberg (2012a) |
Agricultural Census and Survey reports 1918–2007 (OCS, BCS, DOS, CSS, Stats SA) |
1918–2007 |
Primary source for rebuilt production accounts, farm structure, ownership, land use, labour, capital and input expenditure. |
| Liebenberg (2012b) |
Agricultural Census and Survey reports, 1918-2007 (OCS, BCS, DOS, CSS, Stats SA; e.g. Agricultural Census No. 1, 1918) |
1918-2007 |
Primary source for reconstructing national production accounts, farm structure, land use, capital stocks, employment, input expenditure and black/white sub-sector shares. |
| Nattrass (1976a) |
Agricultural Census Nos. 34, 44 and 46 (1959-60, 1970-71, 1972-73), plus Census No. 28 (1953/54 labour on farms) |
1953/54-1973 |
Provides farm employment by race (including casual workers), capital investment in improvements, and African farm population for 1960, 1971, 1973 used in Tables 1-3 and A1. |
| Neethling (1930) |
Union Census figures for 1927 (farms of 100 morgen or larger; area, size groups, maize morgen and yields by district) |
1927 |
Benchmark to test representativeness of the sample by average farm size, size-group distribution and maize yield per morgen. |
| Roberts (2009) |
Agricultural Censuses (Censuses of Agricultural and Pastoral Production), various years 1953/54–2002, incl. Census of Agricultural Provincial statistics 2002 – Eastern Cape |
1953/54, 1955-1956, 1976, 1988, 1993, 2002 |
Number and size of farms, area under crops and regular/casual labour force in Albany, used for long-run trend comparisons. |
| Schirmer (1995) |
Agricultural Census Nos. 12 (U.G. 35-30), 15 (U.G. 54-36), 16 (U.G. 59-37), 19, 20, 24, 29 (U.G. 49/1958), 32 (U.G. 70/1960) and 37 (1962) |
1929-1962 |
Gives farm numbers and sizes, tractor numbers, farm size distribution and income bands, and Lydenburg's productivity rank. |
| Simkins (1981) |
Union Agricultural Censuses 1918-1969 (reserve output and livestock returns) |
1918-1969 (gaps 1919-20, 1922, 1931-3, 1939-45) |
Main source of quantities of crops and livestock produced in the reserves, used to build the value-of-production series in Table 1. |
| Simkins (1984a) |
Agricultural Census 1937 |
1937 |
Provincial shares of persons working on White farms are used to weight provincial incomes into the average of £4.33 per head. |
| Simkins (1984a) |
Agricultural Census 1955 (Table B1) and holding definitions |
1955 |
Provides the definition of a 'holding' and evidence of boys aged 10-16 engaged in farm work, which justifies the adjusted participation rate. |
| Simkins (1984a) |
Agricultural Census 1962 (separate tabulations on grazing and arable land) |
1962 |
Shows that the value of land made available to Africans is excluded from in-kind income, so production can be added to earnings without double-counting. |
| Simkins (1984a) |
Agricultural Censuses (1934 onward; 1955, 1960, 1965, 1969 and others), population, employment, production, incomes, casual workers |
1934-1969 |
Supplies African farm population counts for comparison, regular and domestic employment, production, and cash and kind incomes, including magisterial district data for 1955 and 1960. |
| Simkins (1984b) |
1937 Agricultural Census (provincial distribution of Africans working on White farms) |
1937 |
Weights provincial income estimates into a national average of £4.33 per head. |
| Simkins (1984b) |
1962 Agricultural Census separate tabulations on grazing and arable land |
1962 |
Shows that value of land made available to Africans is not counted in income, avoiding double counting. |
| Simkins (1984b) |
Agricultural Censuses (farm population counts 1955, 1960, 1965; production, employment, income in cash and kind, casual workers, by magisterial district) |
1923-1969 |
Source of African agricultural production, regular/domestic employment and income data, and of a competing farm population count used to infer undercount. |
| Smith (1972) |
Agricultural Census No. 43 of 1968-69, Department of Statistics, R.S.A. |
1968-69 |
Source of the farm-worker wage figures in Table 1 (1969, cash and kind). |
| Stavrou (1988) |
Census of Agricultural and Pastoral Production Reports Nos. 06-01-01, 03, 08, 10, 12 (Census Nos. 37, 38, 44, 46, 48), 1962-63 to 1975 |
1960-1975 |
Source for Table 3 on farm unit numbers by type of ownership (individual/partnership, companies, state, other) for 1960-1975. |
| Stavrou (1988) |
Census of Agricultural and Pastoral Production Reports Nos. 06-01-14, 15, 16 (1978, 1979, 1980) |
1978-1980 |
Source for 1978-80 ownership shares in Table 3, the 1978 area holding by ownership type, and the 1980 company share of expenditure (28,7%) and sales (30,5%); also used for the decline in black farm labour 1974-80. |
| Vink and Kirsten (2001) |
1988 Agricultural Census data (used as the base for the Western Cape model) |
1988 |
Base data for the programming model of Western Cape agriculture that gives the employment effects in Table 4. |
| Vink and Kirsten (2001) |
Agricultural Census / Agricultural Survey (casual labour cash income and employment) |
1958-1990s (limited data points) |
Source for casual employment series and the full-time-equivalent (FTE) conversion (Figure 4) used to show casual labour trends. |
| Vink and Kirsten (2001) |
CSS, 1993 (Agricultural Census 1993 provincial data) and DBSA data files |
1993 (value added 1991) |
Provides the provincial composition of farm labour, value added and value added per hectare (Table 2). |