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Kind official statistical series
Producer Various foreign governments
Coverage various
Works using it 24

Debates

Debate Works
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 8
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement 5
Pre-Union colonial economy, the mineral revolution and the South African War 3
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry 2
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 2
Data reliability and econometric method 2
Census, race classification and demographic data 1
Finance, capital flight, the 1985 debt crisis and banking 1
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis 1
Education, Bantu Education and skills 1
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control 1
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals 1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 1
Post-apartheid economic policy, governance and corruption 1
Living standards, health and social policy 1
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
(organiser) et al. (2008) Argentine official statistics on debt, income distribution and federal budget (Guía del Mundo 2005/2006 - INDEK; 2008 Federal Budget proposal) 1974-2008 Supplies the country-profile figures on debt stocks, creditor composition, inequality and interest burden.
(organiser) et al. (2008) Azerbaijan public debt statistics (Ministry of Finance data as of 1 July 2007; debt structure charts) 1995-July 2007 Charts and figures describe foreign debt by creditor, maturity, sector and ratio to GDP.
(organiser) et al. (2008) Pakistan Ministry of Finance 'Debt Policy Statement' 1995-2007 Provides figures on external and domestic debt growth and repayment profile, which are used to criticise the Musharraf borrowing record.
Chirwa (1996) National Statistical Office, Employment and Earnings Annual Report, 1984-1986 (Zomba, 1986) 1977-1986 Labour survey evidence that unemployment in 1983 was 5.4 per cent, more than double the 1977 rate.
Crush and James (1995a) Malawi Ministry of Health survey 1989 (via Kishindo), Aids Secretariat reports, National Statistical Office Demographic and Health Survey 1992 1985-1994 Data on HIV/Aids prevalence and condom use in Malawi.
Crush and James (1995a) Sechaba Consultants 1994; Setsabi et al 1992 survey of Basotho miners; Lesotho Bureau of Statistics Yearbook 1992 1976-2001 Statistics on share of men in mining, unemployment, GDP/GNP and ex-miner farming.
Crush and James (1995b) Malawi AIDS Secretariat/hospital case reports 1985-1993 Used to show Aids was entrenched in Malawi before the 1987 South African ban.
Crush and Wellings (1983) Lesotho Bureau of Statistics, Hotel-Tourism Statistics, 1979-80 1967-1981 Supplies actual annual tourist arrivals to Lesotho plotted in Figure 1 and occupancy/bed-night data.
Crush and Wellings (1983) Swaziland Government, Annual Statistical Bulletins, 1970-80 1970-1980 Provides actual tourist arrivals and the official estimate for Swaziland in Figure 1.
Crush and Wellings (1983) Tourism statistics tables on origin, bed-night capacity, occupancy, and trip purpose for Lesotho and Swaziland, 1972-80 (underlying series not named) 1972-1980 Underpins Tables 1-3 on South African source regions, spatial concentration of bed-nights, and occupancy rates, plus business vs holiday shares.
De Zwart (2012) Statistical tables relating to British self-governing dominions, colonies, possessions and protectorates, CO 442/27-CO 442/63 (1854-1913) 1854-1913 Wage rates by occupation and race, plus prices of consumables, produce, imports and exports, for 1854-1913.
Dinkelman and Mariotti (2014) Malawi Department of Labour Annual Reports (foreign travel documents issued, 1958-60 and 1963-67) 1958-1967 Flow measure of migration (men issued foreign travel documents) to validate that WNLA stations predict outmigration.
Dinkelman and Mariotti (2014) Malawi Statistical Yearbook 1972 (Table 7.9, deferred pay and remittances) and 1995 1967; 1992-1995 Value of deferred pay/remittances in 1967 used to compute income per returning miner; 1995 yearbook gives number of primary schools in 1992.
Dinkelman and Mariotti (2014) Malawi/Nyasaland Ministry of Education Annual Report 1960 and Malawi Ministry of Education 1977 'Major trends in education in Malawi 1974-1976' 1960-1977 Shows primary school numbers did not grow, ruling out school supply expansion as confounder.
Evenett (2002c) World Bank World Development Indicators CD-ROM (national income, US price deflator, income classifications) 1978-1999 Provides national income data, the US deflator to convert to 1995 dollars, and the middle-income classification used to select comparator exporters.
Halpern (2004) Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Immigration, Crop Report (monthly crop reports, 1885/1888-1910) 1885-1910 Cited as showing a clear picture of the labour shortage in the sugar parishes.
Halpern (2004) Year Book of the Louisiana Sugar Cane Industry, 1939; A. Bouchereau, Statement of the Sugar Crop Made in Louisiana in 1897-98 1889-1904 Source for Louisiana sugar tonnage (347,000 tons in 1897) and comparison with Java and Cuba.
Harries (1987) Boletim Oficial de Mocambique (BO) 1861-1876 Slave populations and numbers of 'black passengers' embarking at Lourenco Marques, plus Portuguese regulations.
Hendrie (1976b) U.S. agricultural labour statistics (farm population, farm employment, farm wage workers) unspecified Used as a comparison to show that fuller labour coverage is feasible; the source line is blank.
Higginson (1992) Annual Report of the Chief Government Mining Engineer and Chief Inspector of Mines (Southern Rhodesia), 1948, and Annual Report Mines 1935 1935, 1948 Supplies the detention-camp convict labour quotation, wage declines in mining (28 to 20 shillings) and accident and mortality evidence.
Higginson (1992) Official Year Book of the Colony of Southern Rhodesia 1930 and 1932 1930-1932 Source for fatal accident data by mining district in Bulawayo, Gwelo and elsewhere, 1930.
Kanyenze (2004) Botswana work permits by nationality, 1995-99 (Table 7) 1995-1999 Shows the composition of skilled migrant labour entering Botswana and its gender bias.
Keegan (1979) Annual Basutoland Colonial Reports (British Command Papers) annual, c.1900-1908 Evidence of population pressure and soil deterioration in Basutoland.
Lemon (1995) Additional Report Accompanying the Annual Report of the Secretary for Education and Culture for 1987 (Chanakira, 1988) 1987 Used for the proportion of primary leavers entering secondary school in 1987.
Lemon (1995) Annual Report of the Secretary for Education and Culture for the Year Ending 31st December 1989 (CSO, 1990) 1979-1989 Provides the figures for the growth of secondary school enrolment and the number of secondary schools after independence.
Lemon (1995) Education and Manpower Development, 10 (RIEP, 1989) 1989 (projections to 2000) Source for projected growth in Black pupil numbers to 2000.
McCann (2001) Ethiopian national cereal production shares (Watt 1988; Kassahun et al. 1990) 1970-1991 Quantifies the rise of maize's share of national cereal production during the revolution.
Milburn and Cole (1957) New Zealand Economic Survey and New Zealand Economy 1939-1951 (Government Printer) 1939-1956 Listed among reliable studies of the New Zealand economy.
Overseas Development Institute (1986) UK Department of Trade and Industry figures on UK company disinvestment, released October 1986 1982-1984 Quantifies British direct disinvestment from South Africa.
Rodman (1994) U.S. Department of Commerce, Foreign Economic Trends: South Africa, September 1986 1986 Supports the claim that South Africa had a good repayment record, large reserves, a current account surplus and a low debt-service ratio.
Rodman (1995b) World Bank, World Debt Tables 1987-88, vol. 2; U.S. Department of Commerce, Foreign Economic Trends: Nicaragua (March 1986) 1980s Supply figures on MDB loans authorized to Nicaragua and the $4.5 billion foreign liabilities by 1985.
Sanderson (1961) Northern Rhodesia, Report upon Native Affairs, 1931 1931 First official estimate of Nyasas employed in Northern Rhodesia (4,597).
Sanderson (1961) Nyasaland Annual Colonial Report, 1958 1958 Supplies the contemporary estimates of Nyasa male adults employed abroad and in paid employment at home, framing the scale of migration.
Sanderson (1961) Nyasaland Colonial Report for 1920 and Kuczynski, A Demographic Survey of the British Colonial Empire, ii 1920 Used to show that official estimates of Nyasas working abroad were grossly understated when compared with South African and Southern Rhodesian figures.
Sanderson (1961) Southern Rhodesia, Annual Report on Public Health, 1915, 1919, 1920 1915-1920 Numbers of Nyasas on Rhodesian mines (10,513 by 1916) and their ranking by origin.
Simkins and Van Heyningen (1989) Knibbs, 1911 Census of Australia, Australian Life Tables 1891-1900 Benchmark for comparing white Cape infant mortality and life expectancy.
Taylor (1990) Statistical Bulletin 11(1), Gaborone, 1986 1972-1985 Source for annual number of mine recruits in Botswana, 1972-85 (Table 1), used to show the halving of recruitment from the 1976 peak.
Teoh et al. (1999) Federal Reserve Historical Business Day Data (1-year Treasury bill yields) 1980s Daily interest rates for the fixed-income factor in the model-return regressions.
Teoh et al. (1999) U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, Minerals Yearbook 1988 1980-1988 South African gold output (about 21.8m oz to 19.9m oz) in the macroeconomic background.