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South African Statistics / Statistical Year Book

Literature › Primary sources
Kind official statistical series
Producer Bureau of Statistics / Department of Statistics / CSS / Stats SA
Coverage 1964-2002
Works using it 33

Debates

Debate Works
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis 9
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control 9
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 8
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform 6
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure 6
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 5
Data reliability and econometric method 5
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion 4
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining 4
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy 4
Living standards, health and social policy 4
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism 3
Unemployment: causes, measurement and labour market institutions 3
Racial wage gaps, wage convergence and wage determination 3
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals 2
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement 2
Census, race classification and demographic data 1
Pre-Union colonial economy, the mineral revolution and the South African War 1
Long-run legacy and persistence of apartheid 1
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 1
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital 1
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Abel (2014a) South African Statistical Yearbook 1982 (growth point locations) 1982 Locates growth points to control for distance to industrial areas in the robustness test.
Bell (1995) South African Statistics (various issues), current price data 1961-88 1961-1988 Used to calculate the import-substitution index (imports/total supply) for 1961-88 for consumer, intermediate and capital goods.
Bell and Madula (2001) South African Statistics 1990 1920-1970 Source of manufacturing employment growth rates for 1920-1970 in Table 1.
Bell and Padayachee (1984) South African Statistics and Quarterly Bulletin of Statistics (various issues): non-agricultural employment and population growth by race 1946-1983 Source for Table 1 growth rates of non-agricultural employment (mining, manufacturing, construction, electricity) and of population by race, which show that the demand for labour slowed.
De Klerk (1990) Central Statistical Services, South African Statistics (1986) and Bulletin of Statistics (1988b) 1980-1987 Court records of agricultural sequestrations used to confirm rising farmer insolvency.
Di McIntyre et al. (1995) Central Statistical Service (1993a) South African Statistics 1993 (CPI, salaries) and CSS 1992 1982-1993 CPI deflators and average salaries for real expenditure and contribution-to-salary ratios.
Fedderke et al. (2006) Statistics South Africa and predecessors statistical publications (South African Statistics, 2002 and other years) – infrastructure time series 1875–2001 Supplies the long-run series on rail, roads, ports, air travel, telephones and electricity used in the descriptive indices, the bounds tests and the VECM estimation.
Hendrie (1976a) South African Statistics 1974 1961, 1965 Used to cross-check Table 7 employment figures, revealing unexplained discrepancies.
Houghton and Dagut (1973) Statistical Year Book 1966 (Sadie and du Plessis articles) 1955-1966 Review of 1961-66 development and the 1955-65 balance of payments with tables.
Maree (1985) Central Statistical Services, South African Statistics 1982, Table 7.5 1970-1982 Gives the African labour force by sector, and the 1980 economically active Black population used to compute union density (about 8%).
Maree (1993a) Central Statistical Services, South African Statistics 1992 1975-1991 Documents consumer price inflation, with an item costing 14 cents in 1975 priced at R1.15 in 1991.
Maree (1993b) South African Statistics 1992 (price/inflation series) 1975-1991 Shows inflation eroding real incomes: a consumer item costing 14 cents in 1975 would cost R1.15 in 1991.
Mariotti (2008) Statistics South Africa Mid-year Population Figures 1980; Central Statistical Service South African Statistics; special wage reports 1970-1990 Listed as general data references supporting population and wage background, not used distinctly in the text.
Mariotti (2009a) Central Statistical Service, South African Statistics (biennial 1970-1990); SA Reserve Bank Quarterly Bulletin; Mid-year Population Figures 1980 1970-1990 Listed as references for aggregate and population statistics (e.g. racial population shares); specific use is not stated.
Mariotti (2009b) Central Statistical Service, South African Statistics (biennial 1970-1990) and South African Reserve Bank Quarterly Bulletin 1970-1990 Listed as macro series (likely for deflators/economic conditions); specific use not described in text.
McGrath and Simkins (1985) South African Statistics 1980 (Table 6.2) 1960-1970 Apparent source of Simkins's 1960 and 1970 pension recipient proportions, which he overrode for 1970.
McIntyre et al. (1995) Central Statistical Service, South African Statistics 1993 (CPI and salary data) 1982-1993 Provides CPI deflators and average formal sector salaries for real-terms scheme expenditure and contributions.
Moll (1991b) South African Statistics (Pretoria), most recent issues – used to recalculate South African growth for Table 2 1950-1985 Provides the numbers used to derive the gold-recalculated South African growth rates by adjusting World Bank figures.
Moll (1991b) South African Statistics 1976 (Pretoria, 1976), p. 21.7 – real GDP 1948-69 at 1963 prices 1948-1969 Official national accounts GDP series for 1948-69 used for conventional growth rates in Table 1.
Moll (1991b) South African Statistics 1982 (Pretoria, 1982), p. 21.7 – real GDP 1969-74 at 1975 prices 1969-1974 Extends the conventional real GDP series to 1974 for Table 1.
Moll (1991c) South African Statistics 1976 and South African Statistics 1982, p. 21.7 (real GDP 1948-69 at 1963 prices; 1969-74 at 1975 prices) 1948-1974 Provides the conventional official real GDP series for the post-1948 period in Table 1 and the base for South African growth rates in Table 2.
Moll (1991d) South African Statistics 1970 (Steyn) and SARB Quarterly Bulletin, September 1971 – official statements of post-war growth 1946-1968 Cited as official claims of 'exceptionally rapid' growth that the article tests and challenges.
Moll (1991d) South African Statistics 1976 and 1982 (Pretoria), p. 21.7 – real GDP series 1948-69 (1963 prices) and 1969-74 (1975 prices) 1948-1974 Provides the official conventional real GDP growth series used in Table 1 and to build the recalculated series and Table 2 adjustments.
Nattrass (1976a) South African Statistics 1974 1921-1973 Source of agricultural output, 1960 and 1971 employment, and the population growth rates by race used to compound employment forward and estimate migration.
Nattrass (1976a) Statistical Year Book 1964 1950-1964 Used with South African Statistics 1974 for numbers of permanent African farm employees in Table 3.
Nattrass (1977) Statistical Year Book 1964 (Bureau of Statistics) and South African Statistics 1976 (Department of Statistics), wage and employment series 1960-1975 Source of modern sector average real wage rates by race, wage bills and employment, from which the Black-White wage gap and sectoral wage income decompositions are estimated.
Obi (2006) Statistical Abstracts / Central Statistical Service 'South African Statistics' (1993, 1994) and Statistics South Africa series 1955-2003 Source for real interest rate on debt, farm debt, CPI/inflation and other macro series.
Perkins et al. (2005a) Statistics South Africa and predecessors, South African Statistics (2002 and other years), incl. SSA 1980 value-added series 1911-2002 Source for GDP backcast to 1911, population, and most physical infrastructure series (rail, roads, vehicles, ports, air travel, electricity).
Perkins et al. (2005b) Statistics South Africa and predecessors: South African Statistics (2002 and other years), including SSA 1980 value-added series 1911-2002 Source for rail, road, vehicle, port, air, phone and electricity series, population, and for back-extrapolating nominal GDP to 1911.
Sabbagh (1968) Statistical Year Book 1964, Pretoria 1951-1960 Compilations of the 1960 census used for the population data and the 1963 immigration figures.
Sabbagh (1968) Statistical Year Book 1966 (urban White and Bantu population, 1904-1960, Table II) 1904-1960 Source of the urban population totals and White and Bantu shares showing the rising Bantu urban share.
Siebert (1987b) South African Statistical Yearbooks 1947-1984 Used with the Bulletin of Statistics to build the spliced manufacturing employment series.
Simkins (1984a) South African Statistics 1978, p. 9.4 (number and area of holdings) 1959-1969 Shows the fall in the number of holdings against a small fall in area held, which suggests the growth of African de facto occupation.
Simkins (1984b) South African Statistics 1978, p.9.4 (number and area of holdings 1959 and 1969) 1959-1969 Shows the number of holdings fell much faster than area, suggesting growth in African de facto occupation.
Simkins and Van Heyningen (1989) South African Statistics 1982 (Department of Statistics) 1915-1980 White Union vital statistics 1915-19 used to link Cape turn-of-century rates to later twentieth century.
Sitas et al. (1984) South African Statistics 1982, Tables 7.5 and 12.50 1960-1980 Source for manufacturing employment and output growth rates by period.
Stavrou (1988) South African Statistics 1986 (preliminary figures) 1980-1986 Provides preliminary 1980 figures for commercial farm numbers (Table 2) and tractor numbers (Table 4).
Van Zyl et al. (1987a) South African Statistics 1980, Department of Statistics 1980 Supports the claim that commercial agriculture employs over half the economically active population in rural regions.