Statistics of Houses and Domestic Servants

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	official statistical series
Producer	Department of Statistics
Coverage	1970-1975
Works using it	2

Debates

Debate	Works
Unemployment: causes, measurement and labour market institutions	2
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis	1
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control	1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	1
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation	1
Racial wage gaps, wage convergence and wage determination	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Knight (1976a)	Statistics of Houses and Domestic Servants 1970, Report No. 11-03-06	1970	Sample survey of households used to estimate domestic servant numbers (754,000) for comparison with census.
Nattrass (1977)	Report 11-03-11 Statistics of Houses and Domestic Servants, October 1975	1970-1975	Index of cash servants' wages used to escalate domestic service wages for 1973 and 1975.