Abstract of Agricultural Statistics

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Kind	official statistical series
Producer	Department of Agricultural Economics and Marketing / Department of Agriculture
Coverage	1958-2012
Works using it	13

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Debates

Debate	Works
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control	11
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform	7
Data reliability and econometric method	6
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry	1
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	1
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation	1
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism	1
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement	1
Unemployment: causes, measurement and labour market institutions	1
Living standards, health and social policy	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Africa (1976)	Abstract of Agricultural Statistics 1975	1937–1974	Source for the number of farms, area and irrigation (Table 7), gross capital formation (Table 15) and export volume indexes (Table 17).
Africa (1976)	Supplementary Data to the Abstract of Agricultural Statistics, Jan. 1967 and 1966-67	1947/48–1965/66	Gives the indexes of agricultural production volume (Table 13) and tractor imports (Table 16).
Conradie et al. (2009)	Abstract of Agricultural Statistics (1999)	post-1950 (published 1999)	Supplementary source of agricultural information for the period after 1950.
De Klerk (1990)	RSA Department of Agricultural Economics and Marketing, Abstract of Agricultural Statistics (1988, 1989), and personal communications with the Department (April 1989)	1970-1988	Supplies income, expenditure, asset, debt and capital stock series for Table 1 and the financial indicators in Table 2.
Hendrie (1976b)	Abstract of Agricultural Statistics	time series, unspecified	Described as one of the three census publications, containing national time-series data.
Kirsten et al. (2007)	Abstract of Agricultural Statistics (various years, incl. 2006), Department of Agriculture	1960-2005	Source of production volumes, farm-gate and wholesale prices, export realization prices and sugar fob prices used to compute NRAs, and of livestock/meat composition trends.
Knight (1976b)	Department of Agriculture, 1975 Abstract of Agricultural Statistics (Tables 80, 89)	1958-1975	Agricultural production volume and producer prices used to gauge Homeland agricultural growth and farm employment fluctuation (Figure 1).
Liebenberg (2012a)	Abstract of Agricultural Statistics, 1958–2007 editions (Department of Agriculture / DAEM / DAS)	1936–2007	Baseline published output, input, capital formation and employment series that the author audits, corrects and compares against.
Liebenberg (2012b)	Abstract of Agricultural Statistics (1958 onward; editions 1958, 1967, 1972, 1980, 1985, 1995, 1997, 2007, 2012)	1936-2012 (editions); summary series back to 1910	Baseline official output, input, employment, capital formation and volume-of-production series that the author audits, revises and rebuilds.
Roberts (2009)	Department of Agriculture, Handbook of Agricultural Statistics 1960 and Abstract of Agricultural Statistics 2003	1954-2003	Share of agriculture in GDP over time and male share of agricultural workers in 1954.
Standish (1976)	Abstract of Agricultural Statistics 1975	1975	Used to calculate the sample's share of all Natal farms (3.32%) and the average Natal farm size (523.4 ha) for representativeness.
Stavrou (1988)	Abstract of Agricultural Statistics 1985 and 1986	1918-1985	Supplies the farm numbers, average sizes and cultivated area (Table 2), tractor numbers (Table 4), investment shares (Table 5), and the changes in lorries and harvesters.
Van Zyl et al. (1987a)	Abstract of Agricultural Statistics 1986 (Anon., 1986), Directorate Agricultural Economic Trends	1950-1985	Source for national farm employment, real gross capital formation (Table 1), farm numbers, size, labour per farm, and maize area share.
Vink (2012)	Abstract of Agricultural Statistics 2010	1970-2009	Provides red meat and poultry consumption totals for 1970 and 2009 supporting the shift to poultry.