SARB / Statistics South Africa real GDP per capita series

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	national accounts macro
Producer	South African Reserve Bank; Statistics South Africa
Coverage	1911-2003
Works using it	3

Debates

Debate	Works
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis	2
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform	1
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	1
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure	1
Data reliability and econometric method	1
Unemployment: causes, measurement and labour market institutions	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Fedderke et al. (2006)	South African national accounts data (GDP, per capita output)	c.1960–2002	Provides real GDP and per capita GDP, the output variable in the bounds tests and VECM.
Nattrass and Seekings (2010b)	Statistics South Africa and South African Reserve Bank real GDP per capita series (from 1932), with Du Plessis (1950) estimates for 1911-12, 1917-18, 1927-28	1911-2001	Plots real GDP per capita over the century; pre-1932 estimates are rescaled on 1937-38 data to show stagnation, then growth.
Obi (2006)	Real GDP per capita series (Reserve Bank/SSA)	1955-2003	Used as rgdpc, the proxy for ability to pay and non-agricultural land demand.