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Agricultural Census / Report on Agricultural and Pastoral Production

Literature › Primary sources
Kind official statistical series
Producer Department of Statistics / CSS
Coverage 1918-1993
Works using it 9

Project holdings

The project holds this source in part. See Agricultural Census.

Debates

Debate Works
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform 6
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control 6
Data reliability and econometric method 4
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
De Klerk (1990) Central Statistical Services, Statistical News Release: Agriculture Survey 1987 (P1101, 28 December 1988) 1987 Source for farm wages and salaries being about 13% of total costs in 1987.
Delius and Schirmer (2000) Agricultural Statistics for 1955 1955 Source for the comparison of farm size and the share of farms selling under £100 of produce by province.
Hendrie (1976a) Statistical News Release, 15 April 1976 (Agricultural Census 1973/74) 1973/74 Supplies the latest (1974) counts of farming units and farm employees.
Hendrie (1976b) Statistical News Release, 15 April 1976 (and 1973/4 release) 1973/4-1974 Supplies the 1974 employment figures in Table 3 and is cited as the only limited recent information on the sector.
Keegan (1985) U.G. 13-1927, Report of Agricultural and Pastoral Production, 1925 1918 (absentee ownership); report for 1925 Supplies the 1918 share of farms owned by absentees (36% OFS, 45% Transvaal) as evidence of undercapitalization and reliance on sharecropping.
Schirmer (2004) Report on Agricultural and Pastoral Production, 1945-46 (reapers and binders) 1945 Shows Cape farmers owned 62 per cent of all reapers and binders by 1945, evidencing early mechanisation in Cape wheat.
Schirmer (2004) Report on Agricultural and Pastoral Production, 1945/46, 1960, 1976, 1979 (tractor, combine, reaper/binder and cultivated-area figures; Appendices A and B) 1945-1979 Provides tractor numbers and cultivated area used to show rapid mechanisation after 1945 and the compared growth of tractors and cultivated area.
Simkins (1984a) Summary Report on Agricultural and Pastoral Production 1936-37 to 1938-39 and 1946-47 to 1953-54 1936-1954 Clarifies which payments in kind farmers' valuations include, so the author can avoid double-counting with production.
Simkins (1984b) Summary Report on Agricultural and Pastoral Production 1936-37 to 1938-39 and 1946-47 to 1953-54 1936-1954 Defines what in-kind payments are included in farm worker income.
Vink and Kirsten (2001) Central Statistical Service (CSS) farm employment statistics, various years (regular workers, domestic workers on farms, working owners) 1918-1993 (trend line fitted 1958-2010) Supplies the regular employment series (Figure 3) and Table 1 figures used to show the trend of regular farm employment and a linear projection.