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Bulletin of Statistics (monthly/quarterly) and Department of Statistics employment series

Literature › Primary sources
Kind official statistical series
Producer Department of Statistics
Coverage 1934-1984
Works using it 12

Debates

Debate Works
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 5
Unemployment: causes, measurement and labour market institutions 5
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control 3
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy 3
Racial wage gaps, wage convergence and wage determination 3
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 2
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 2
Pre-Union colonial economy, the mineral revolution and the South African War 1
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis 1
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals 1
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure 1
Data reliability and econometric method 1
Resistance and liberation movements 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Bromberger (1978) Department of Statistics non-farm employment series 1960s-1970s Alternative source of non-farm employment figures that conflicts with census industrial classification and explains the differences among Simkins' estimates.
Hindson (1978) Department of Statistics employment statistics (recognition-based) 1960-1976 Source of employment statistics for the capitalist sector; the reviewer judges them reliable there but not in the non-capitalist sector.
Knight (1976a) Department of Statistics Bulletin of Statistics, South African Statistics and Agricultural Reports (real earnings series in mining, manufacturing, farming) deflated with urban White CPI 1950s-1975 Figure 2 average real earnings of African employees in mining, manufacturing and regular farm work.
Knight (1976a) Department of Statistics employment statistics (South African Statistics 1970/1972/1974; Bulletin of Statistics) 1946-1974 Employer-based employment series compared with census employment by sector and used for growth rates and productivity.
Knight (1976b) Department of Statistics, Bulletin of Statistics, South African Statistics and Reports on Agricultural and Pastoral Production (earnings series) 1940s-1975 Average real African earnings in mining, manufacturing and farming, deflated by the urban White CPI (Figure 2).
Knight (1976b) Employment statistics collected from employers (South African Statistics 1970/1974; Bulletin of Statistics) and Statistics of Houses and Domestic Servants 1970, Report 11-03-06 1946-1973 Compared with census employment by sector to gauge undercount and trend in African non-farm employment; domestic servant estimate checked against the census.
Nattrass (1976a) Monthly (Quarterly) Bulletin of Statistics, December 1975 1951-1975 Supplies economically active population outside agriculture, African manufacturing wages, and urban African counts for growth rates in Table 6 and the 1951-70 job estimates.
Siebert (1987a) Bulletin of Statistics (Department of Statistics) – annual earnings and employment series, gold mining and manufacturing, by colour group 1945-1984 Source of average annual black and white earnings (wage bill divided by average monthly employment) used for wage-gap ratios and as the dependent variable in the supply equations.
Siebert (1987a) S. A. Statistical Yearbooks and Bulletin of Statistics (employment, capital, output and price series) 1947-1984 Sector employment, capital stock, output and value-of-output series used to construct the labour demand variables and product-price deflators.
Siebert (1987b) Bulletin of Statistics (earnings, employment, pass law prosecutions 1947-50) 1945-1984 Source of average annual earnings by colour group (wages bill divided by average monthly employment) and employment series used to construct the black/white wage ratios and the regression variables.
Siebert (1987c) Bulletin of Statistics (earnings, employment and pass law series) 1945-1984 Source of average annual earnings by race for gold mining and manufacturing, used for the black/white wage ratios and the dependent variable in the supply equations.
Siebert (1987c) S. A. Statistical Yearbooks and Bulletin of Statistics (employment series) 1947-1984 Provides black, white and coloured employment in gold mining and manufacturing for the demand equations.
Sources of Growth in the... (1990) Department of Statistics racial growth-rate breakdowns 1946-1982 Population growth rates by race used to show accelerating overall and differential population growth.
Spandau (1980a) Department of Statistics, Quarterly Bulletin of Statistics, Vol. 13, June 1979 1975 and 1978 (coal 1960-1978) Provides White and Black employment in iron ore mining (Table 1) and the falling Black/White ratio.
Spandau (1980b) Department of Statistics, Quarterly Bulletin of Statistics, Vol. 13, June 1979 (iron ore mining employment by race, 1975 and 1978) 1975-1978 Supplies White/Black employment in iron ore mining for Table 1, showing the fall in the Black/White ratio from 4,56:1 to 2,42:1.
Van Schoor (1986) Monthly Bulletin of Statistics, U.G., May 1948 1934-1948 Supports claims on growth of factory workers, power use and output after leaving the gold standard.