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Consumer Price Index

Literature › Primary sources
Kind official statistical series
Producer Department of Statistics / CSS / Stats SA
Coverage 1920-2008
Works using it 10

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Debates

Debate Works
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform 6
Data reliability and econometric method 6
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control 4
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement 3
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals 2
Living standards, health and social policy 2
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion 1
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining 1
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 1
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism 1
Post-apartheid economic policy, governance and corruption 1
Racial wage gaps, wage convergence and wage determination 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Abedian (1982) South African Consumer Price Index 1965-1980 Used as the deflator (1970=100) to compute real GDP and GNP for Transkei.
De Klerk (1990) Central Statistical Services, Statistical News Release: Consumer Price Index (P0141.1, 1988, 1989) and SA Reserve Bank Quarterly Bulletin 1970-1988 CPI used to deflate nominal returns, net worth, debt and interest rates into real terms.
Horrell (1970) Department of Statistics consumer price index, nine principal urban areas (base October 1958) June-August 1969 Reports index changes and the effect of the sales duty.
Kirsten et al. (2007) Statistics South Africa retail price data (Statistical release P3051.1) various, esp. 1961-2005 Retail prices of cake flour, maize meal and sunflower oil converted to wholesale prices using margins for processed-product NRAs.
Lucas (1985) South African cost-of-living index and cost of food index 1946-1980 Deflates capital expenditure into constant 1970 rand stocks, real wages and prices, and the manufacturing expected wage.
McGrath and Simkins (1985) South African consumer price index 1960-1980 Used by Simkins to inflate incomes to constant 1980 prices; McGrath questions appropriateness.
Obi (2006) Consumer Price Index series (2000=100, 1985=100, 1995=100), Appendix 1 1955-2003 Deflator for converting nominal values to constant 2000 prices and to compute inflation.
Simkins (1984a) Consumer price index (used to convert incomes to 1946 prices) 1937-1969 Converts cash and kind incomes to constant 1946 prices.
Simkins (1984b) Consumer price index (used to convert incomes to 1946 prices) 1920s-1969 Deflates cash and kind incomes to 1946 prices.
Van Vuuren (2006) CPIX/consumer price data (Economist Intelligence Unit 1981-2005; Central Statistical Service Statistical News Release Dec 1987 for 1960-1980); NYSE composite index 1960-2005 Used to convert historical rand amounts to 2005 values under three scenarios (ZAR2005, USD-Bank, USD-NYSE).