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Industrial Census / Census of Manufacturing (South Africa)

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Kind industrial mining census
Producer Bureau of Statistics / Department of Statistics / Central Statistical Service / Statistics South Africa
Coverage 1950-1996
Works using it 17

Project holdings

The project holds this source in full. See Manufacturing Census.

Debates

Debate Works
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion 9
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 7
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals 6
Racial wage gaps, wage convergence and wage determination 4
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure 3
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 2
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining 2
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 2
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement 2
Unemployment: causes, measurement and labour market institutions 2
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor 2
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform 1
Coloured Labour Preference policy in the Western Cape 1
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis 1
Data reliability and econometric method 1
Resistance and liberation movements 1
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital 1
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Bell (1973) Industrial Census 1956-7, Special Report No. 240 1956-7 Source of employee numbers and average earnings of African males by border-area district (Table 17) and employment growth.
Bell (1973) Industrial Census 1959-60, Special Report No. 250 (129 manufacturing sectors) 1959-60 Source of labour cost ratio, non-white share and horse-power per worker used to construct divertibility indices.
Bell (1973) Industrial Census 1960-1, Special Report No. 257 1960-1 Employment by sector for ubiquitous industries and cumulative divertible employment.
Bell (1986) Census of Manufacturing 1967/8, 1965/6 and 1963/4, Report No. 10-21-18 (Department of Statistics) 1963/4-1967/8 Regional manufacturing employment for 1965/6 and 1967/8, the turning point in the concentration trend.
Bell (1986) Census of Manufacturing 1970, Report No. 10-21-27 (Department of Statistics) 1970 Regional manufacturing employment for 1970 in Tables 1 and 2.
Bell (1986) Census of Manufacturing 1972, Report No. 10-21-29 (Department of Statistics) 1972 Regional manufacturing employment for 1972 in Tables 1 and 2.
Bell (1986) Census of Manufacturing 1976, Report No. 10-21-33 (Department of Statistics) 1976 1976 regional employment used for the 1976-79 comparison, including Natal and Kwazulu detail in Table 3.
Bell (1986) Census of Manufacturing 1979, Report No. 10-21-40 (Central Statistical Services) 1979 1979 endpoint showing the main areas' share falling to 76.9% and the rise of homeland and border employment.
Bell (1986) Industrial Census 1956/7, Report No. 240 (Bureau of Census and Statistics) 1956/7 Baseline regional manufacturing employment for 1956/7, summed from magisterial districts to build Table 1.
Bell (1986) Industrial Census 1961/2, Report No. 304 (Bureau of Statistics) 1961/2 Regional manufacturing employment for 1961/2 for Tables 1 and 2.
Crankshaw (1990) Censuses of Industrial Establishments 1944-45 to 1949-50; Summary of Reports Con.1 and 2, Industrial Censuses 1950-51 to 1960-61 (Report No. Con.3); Censuses of Construction 1965-66, 1967-68, 1969-70, 1972 (Report Nos. 05-41-01 to 05-41-05) 1944-1972 Supplies the series on African and non-African employment used to compute the racial ratio of labour and measure fragmentation.
Fedderke and Szalontai (2003) Census of Manufacturing, Table 6 (cumulative percentages of gross output by cumulative percentages of firms), 3-digit SIC; 1976, 1979 and 1985 censuses 1976, 1979, 1985 Supplies the Lorenz-curve points from which the Gini and Rosenbluth concentration indices and the discrete concentration shares are computed.
Fedderke and Szalontai (2003) Unpublished Census of Manufacturing concentration tables for 1988, 1991, 1993 and 1996, compiled by StatsSA on request 1988, 1991, 1993, 1996 Extends the concentration series to the 1990s using raw data supplied specially by StatsSA.
Hindson (1978) South African industrial censuses 1960s-1970s Cited to show that informal-sector activity is mostly excluded from official statistics, so Simkins' employment estimates understate it.
Houghton and Dagut (1973) Industrial Censuses of the Bureau of Census and Statistics (as used by Steenkamp) 1935-36 to 1960-61 Supplies average annual earnings of white and Bantu workers in the Steenkamp table.
Katzen (1962) 1956/57 Industrial Census 1956/57 Shows 30,000 Africans employed in private manufacture and building construction and that half of building workers are African.
Katzen (1962) Industrial census 1954/55 figures on share of Union industrial employment in the Western Cape post-war to 1954/55 Shows the Western Cape's share of Union industrial employment fell from 16% to 12%, indicating relative industrial disadvantage.
Katzen (1974) Industry-sector data for 129 industrial sectors (potential materials used, horse-power per worker, African labour proportion and share in costs), used to construct a divertibility index not stated Used to construct an index of the divertibility of industries to border areas, ranking industries by marginal excess private cost of diversion.
Maree (1985) Bureau of Statistics, Industrial Census, 1961-62, Report No. 303 1961-62 Provides plant counts by size in 1961 to show the growth of intermediate and large manufacturing plants.
Maree (1985) Department of Statistics, Census of Manufacturing, 1972, Report No. 10-21-28 1972 Provides 1972 plant counts by size, showing intermediate plants rising from 511 to 833 and large plants from 199 to 414.
Mariotti (2008) South African Manufacturing Census, 1950-1985 1950-1961, 1963, 1965, 1967, 1970, 1972, 1976, 1979, 1982, 1985 Source of black and white employment and wage bill data used to build production wage ratios showing black wages rising relative to white from the late 1960s.
Mariotti (2009a) South African Manufacturing Census 1950-1961, 1963, 1965, 1967, 1970, 1972, 1976, 1979, 1982, 1985 1950-1985 Industry-level panel of employment by race, wage bills, capital and output used in the growth regression (Table 7) testing whether desegregation was associated with economic conditions.
Mariotti (2009b) South African Manufacturing Census 1950-1961, 1963, 1965, 1967, 1970, 1972, 1976, 1979, 1982, 1985 1950-1985 Industry-level panel (race-specific employment, wage bills, capital stock, output) for the regression of African production-worker share growth on economic conditions (Table 7).
Mariotti (2010) South African Manufacturing Census 1950-1961, 1963, 1965, 1967, 1970, 1972, 1976, 1979, 1982, 1985 (143 4-digit and 23 3-digit ISIC sectors) 1950-1985 (18 census years, excluding 1954 and 1955) Supplies employment by race, gender and occupational category and wages by race, which are the basis for estimating the African-white elasticity of substitution.
McCarthy (1988) Central Statistical Services data on manufacturing value added (net output) and employment by industry group, 1925-1982 (Table 1) 1925, 1940, 1946, 1960, 1970, 1982 Shows the shift from light to heavy industry and computes relative productivity (value added share divided by employment share).
McCarthy (1988) Manufacturing Censuses, Central Statistical Services (Table 2: real value added at constant 1980 prices and employment, 1970-1982) 1970-1982 Used to compute sectoral contributions to growth and employment elasticities by manufacturing industry.
Minkley (1990) Unpublished census statistics (manufacturing/industrial census data) 1945/6-1960 Underpins employment, net output and wage statistics by sector and race.
Seekings (1990) 1976 Census of Manufacturing (Nigel) 1976 Shows about 4,500 black manufacturing jobs in Nigel, the material base of Duduza household incomes.
Sitas et al. (1984) Department of Statistics, Manufacturing Census 1976, Report No. 10.21.33 1976 Gives geographic concentration of manufacturing employment and sectoral employment shares in Natal.