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Kind household or labour survey microdata
Producer Various
Coverage 1950-2008
Works using it 26

Debates

Debate Works
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control 5
Unemployment: causes, measurement and labour market institutions 5
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform 4
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 4
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 4
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry 3
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 3
Post-apartheid economic policy, governance and corruption 3
Living standards, health and social policy 3
Census, race classification and demographic data 2
Education, Bantu Education and skills 2
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals 2
Data reliability and econometric method 2
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement 2
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital 2
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy 2
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor 2
Pre-Union colonial economy, the mineral revolution and the South African War 1
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis 1
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining 1
Historiographical approaches 1
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation 1
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism 1
Resistance and liberation movements 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Abedian (1982) Pilot survey "Household Expenditure Income of Transkei" December 1981 - January 1982 Supports the wage rates suggested by recruiting agencies but its remittance ratios are judged inapplicable to all migrants.
Author not named in text (MSc candidate (2012) Smit (1950) survey of wheat and maize consumption among 2,561 black urban families; NNRI survey (Fox 1954); Eiselen 1956 survey 1950-1956 Evidence on black bread consumption levels and the take-up of enriched bread by race.
Becker (1988) Consumer expenditure surveys (Africa Insights 1984) and survey of registered black workers by Dept. of Cooperation and Development (Africa Insights 1985) 1980s Establishes black households' consumption pattern (less import-intensive than white) and migrant remittance data.
Binswanger and Deininger (1993) Kenya Ministry of Agriculture (1978), Integrated Rural Survey 1974, Large Farm Sector Study 1974 Shows small holdings in resettled areas marketed over six times the per hectare produce of 5-8 ha farms, supporting smallholder efficiency.
Crush (1993) Ault and Rutman survey of mineworkers, 1976 (Ault and Rutman 1985) 1976 Used to show that about a quarter of the mine workforce had previous commercial agricultural employment.
Crush and Namasasu (1985) Gay (1981) rural survey, Sources of allocations of household funds in rural Lesotho c. 1978-1981 Table 4 gives the sources of rural household income, showing the dominance of migrant remittances.
Dinkelman (2012) 2007 South African Community Survey and 2007 Cape Area Panel Study (multiple movers) 2007-2008 Provides an upper bound (0.01 to 0.13) on the share of repeat movers used to argue measurement error in last-move data biases results downward.
Greenberg (1987) Maree and Graaff, sample survey of African workers in Cape Town 1975-76 1975-76 Finds 40 percent of migrants had no arable land and 50 percent no cattle, showing the decline of bantustan subsistence.
Hirschsohn (1998) Ginsburg et al. (1995), Taking Democracy Seriously: Worker Expectations and Parliamentary Democracy in South Africa (extensive worker survey) early 1990s (mid-1990s publication) Used as evidence of a 'democratic rupture' between rank-and-file and leaders, yet vibrant worker control over shop stewards at grassroots level.
Kanyenze (2004) SAMP nationally representative migration surveys in Botswana, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe, 1997/98 (Table 2) 1997/98 Shows the share of adults whose parents or grandparents worked in South Africa, indicating the intergenerational depth of migration.
Knight (1976a) Maree and de Vos survey of four Ciskei and Transkei districts (1965 and 1968) 1965, 1968 Provides direct estimates of underemployment rates (about 22% of labour force) in the Homelands.
Knight (1976a) Redelinghuys, HSRC 1974 study of Tswana work-seekers at labour bureaux (Rustenburg area), 1971/2 1971/2 Identifies customary rest periods and factors influencing duration of unemployment among migrants.
Kynoch (2000) Intercontinental Marketing Services Africa, Survey Report of a Study of the Labour Situation on Certain Gold Mines Prepared for General Mining Corporation (March 1988), Tables 56-57 1988 Survey of hundreds of miners showing universal awareness of Russians and many identifying them as professional killers.
Lewis (1984a) Houghton and Walton, The Economy of a Native Reserve, Keiskamma Hoek Rural Survey Vol. II (1952) 1950s Benchmark of about 4 000 lbs of grain per family per year to judge adequacy of grain retained after sales.
Liebenberg (2012b) Survey of Research and Experimental Development (CeSTII/HSRC GERD data, various years) 1966-2008 Gross expenditure on R&D series placing agricultural R&D in the national science context.
Lodge (1998) HSRC 1992 survey of 5,320 members of the Public Service Association (via Schwella, DSA in Depth, 1993) 1992 Shows civil servant anxiety and demoralization that may erode professional ethics.
Macun and Wood (2001) South African Labour Flexibility Survey (SALFS), rounds 1 and 2, 1995-1996 1995-1996 Shows union presence and unionisation of manufacturing firms by size (Table 6) and the Cosatu/Nactu share of main unions.
McCann (2001) Gay, Gill and Hall (eds.), Lesotho's Long Journey (1995) survey data on male labour loss 1990s Survey data cited on the loss of male labour in Basotho farming.
McGrath et al. (2004b) Bureau for Market Research SMME skills study (Martins & Van Wyk 2002) and P-E Corporate Services (2001) Investment in Training 2001-2002 Supply additional training rates and in-house versus external training shares for Tables 7 and 9.
McGrath et al. (2004b) Graduate training/tracer survey of 1999 college cohort (Cosser 2003) and employer satisfaction survey (Maja & McGrath 2003) 1999-2003 Used to estimate employment and further-study outcomes of FET graduates.
Moll (1996a) Remuneration data for informal-sector employees and domestic servants (Witwatersrand) early/mid 1990s Provides the uncovered-sector wage benchmark (R643, R815, R656 per month) against which IC minima are compared.
Moll (1996b) CSS/HSRC household survey, November 1990 November 1990 Microdata for the 1990 earnings regressions showing the African primary effect of 0.020 and secondary effect of 0.11.
Nattrass and Seekings (2012a) Labour Force Survey (LFS), Statistics South Africa, 2004 2004 Used to show at least 130,000 clothing workers should have been registered, versus under 100,000 registered, so extension coverage is understated.
Pankhurst (1996) Post-independence surveys by official agencies and academics on rural household differentiation in Namibia post-1990 Referenced to show extreme household differentiation in the contemporary countryside; not named or analysed.
Simkins and Van Heyningen (1989) Fertility Survey 1982, HSRC Report S-129 (van Tonder) 1982 Evidence on contraceptive use among never-married black women.
Sitas et al. (1984) Black Women in Industry 1983: 988 Interviews, preliminary report (F. Meer et al., IBR and CLRRG) 1983 Evidence that up to 80% of women workers earn below the subsistence minimum.
Venter et al. (2000) Grootboom Constitutional Court judgment, description of settlement conditions 1999-2000 Descriptive household figures from the judgment illustrate the plight of the Grootboom community.
Zuberi et al. (2005) South Africa Demographic and Health Survey 1998 preliminary report 1998 Cited TFR of 2.9 and rising child mortality trend, used as a comparison.