South African Statistics (Department of Statistics / CSS)¶


Kind	official statistical series
Producer	Department of Statistics / Central Statistical Service
Coverage	1956-1993
Works using it	4

Debates¶

Debate	Works
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	2
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	1
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	1
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control	1
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure	1
Post-apartheid economic policy, governance and corruption	1
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital	1
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy	1
Racial wage gaps, wage convergence and wage determination	1

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Crankshaw (1990)	South African Statistics 1982	1982	Cited in a footnote to the discussion of the racially exclusive Cape craft unions.
Frost (1993)	CSS South African Statistics and Statistical News Release	1956-1990s	Supplementary official series (registered union membership pre-1979, CPI, GDP, wages) used in descriptive tables.
Kraak (1995)	Central Statistics Service, South African Statistics (reports for 1982, 1990 and 1993) - managerial employment by race	1970-1991	Table 5 traces the number and share of African and White managers to show slow black advancement into managerial jobs until the late 1980s.
Kraak (1995)	Department of Statistics, South African Statistics 1980; Central Statistics Services, South African Statistics 1982 and 1993 (occupational structure by race, 1970, 1980, 1991)	1970-1991	Table 1 shows the racial recomposition of occupational categories, with African and White shares of employment, to document resegmentation.
Van Zyl et al. (1987b)	South African Statistics 1980, Department of Statistics (R.S.A., 1980)	1980	Source for urban population shares and the inference that commercial agriculture employs over half of the rural economically active population.