Michael de Klerk farmer interviews and seasonal worker surveys

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	interviews oral history
Producer	Michael de Klerk
Coverage	1982
Works using it	2

Debates

Debate	Works
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control	2
Data reliability and econometric method	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
De Klerk (1984b)	Farmer interviews and co-operative member registers (three co-operatives) used for sampling	1982	Sampling frame (non-random, stratified by size and location) and farmer reports on workers' wages, food, housing, leave and schooling.
De Klerk (1984b)	Smaller informal survey of seasonal workers in the Transkei (workers from four of the surveyed farms)	c. 1982	Cross-check on farmers' wage reports to assess class-bias/non-sampling error.
De Klerk (1984c)	Follow-up survey of seasonal workers in the Transkei	1982 (workers employed in 1981 and earlier years)	Checks the 'class bias' of farmer-only data by corroborating employers' employment and wage answers with workers.