IDC sectoral database

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	official statistical series
Producer	Industrial Development Corporation
Coverage	1972-1993
Works using it	2

Debates

Debate	Works
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure	2
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis	1
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement	1
Unemployment: causes, measurement and labour market institutions	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Bell (1995)	IDC export data (current Rand values by sector, 1972-93)	1972-1993	Used to show the manufactures share of exports and to compute 1988-93 export growth rates for manufactures, gold, agriculture and total exports.
Kaplinsky (1995)	Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) database, 76-sector breakdown of South African manufacturing	1972-90	Source of sectoral capital-labor ratios, capital stock shares and net investment by sector (Tables 5 and 6), underpinning the underinvestment argument.