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De Klerk survey of 61 Western Transvaal maize farms and related papers

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Kind author survey or fieldwork
Producer Michael de Klerk
Coverage 1968-1982
Works using it 3

Debates

Debate Works
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control 3
Data reliability and econometric method 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
De Klerk (1984a) Author's survey of 61 maize farms in six magisterial districts of the Western Transvaal (Coligny, Delareyville, Koster, Lichtenburg, Schweizer-Reneke, Wolmaransstad), covering harvesting, delivery and weeding 1968-81 1968-1981 Main evidence for technology adoption, farm size, yields, seasonal and permanent employment, worker composition, and farmers' stated reasons for mechanizing.
De Klerk (1984b) Author's survey of 61 maize farms in six Western Transvaal magisterial districts (Coligny, Delareyville, Koster, Lichtenburg, Schweizer-Reneke, Wolmaransstad), 1980-81 agricultural year February-March 1982 (data for 1980-81 agricultural year; some farms back to 1968) Primary source for permanent, seasonal and domestic wage rates, worker numbers per family, food and housing, and thus family income estimates and the poverty analysis.
De Klerk (1984c) Author's survey of 61 maize farms in six Western Transvaal magisterial districts (Coligny, Delareyville, Koster, Lichtenburg, Schweizer-Reneke, Wolmaransstad), Feb/March 1982 1968-1981 (recall data; survey Feb/March 1982; analysis on 1968, 1973, 1977, 1981) Main source for mechanization, employment, wages, team composition, worker residence and farmers' reasons for mechanizing.
De Klerk (1984c) M. J. de Klerk, 'The Incomes of Farm Workers and Their Families', Second Carnegie Inquiry Conference Paper No. 28, 1984 1968-1981 Companion study that supplies wage composition, estimation method and the correlation of mechanization with family incomes.
De Klerk (1984c) M. J. de Klerk, unpublished M.A. thesis, University of Cape Town, 1983, 'Technological Change and Employment in South African Agriculture' 1968-1981 Underlying research on which the article is based.