BENSO Statistical Survey of Black Development

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	official statistical series
Producer	BENSO
Coverage	1970-1982
Works using it	3

Debates

Debate	Works
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals	2
Data reliability and econometric method	2
Living standards, health and social policy	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Abedian (1982)	BENSO Statistical Survey of Black Development 1979 and 1980 (and The National Economy of Transkei 1976)	1970-1977 (with data to 1980)	Source of GDP/GNP 1970-77, migrant numbers and earnings, commuters and population series; the author critiques it as inconsistent and uses it with revision.
Crush and Wellings (1983)	Bureau of Economic Research and Development, Statistical Survey of Black Development, Parts I and II (Pretoria, 1981-2), Tables 66 and 103	1977-8 to 1981-2	Source for Table 4 on grants, loans and internal revenue financing of the Homelands.
McGrath and Simkins (1985)	BENSO 1976, Black Development in South Africa (p.47 footnote on commuters)	1970	Footnote indicating males were ~80% of commuters in 1970 versus Simkins's 71%, implying understated commuter incomes.
McGrath and Simkins (1985)	BENSO 1980, Statistical Survey of Black Development 1980 (Tables 48, 50, 52, 103)	1977-1980	Used for homeland non-market production, income composition (77% from commuters, remittances, agriculture) and GNP per capita growth comparison.
McGrath and Simkins (1985)	BENSO, Statistical Survey of Black Development 1982, Parts I and II (Part I Table 16; Part II Table 8)	1980-1982	Provides 1980 census agricultural employment for all homelands (767 200), replacing Simkins's estimate.