Department of Statistics Statistical News Releases

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	official statistical series
Producer	Department of Statistics
Coverage	1960-1979
Works using it	4

Debates

Debate	Works
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform	2
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control	2
Data reliability and econometric method	2
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	1
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	1
Racial wage gaps, wage convergence and wage determination	1
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Horner and Kooy (1980a)	Department of Statistics, Statistical News Release P.8, 27 July 1979	February 1979	Establishes mine employment of 667 000 (69 000 white, 598 000 black) in February 1979.
Simkins (1984a)	Statistical News Release P11.1 of 12.2.1969 (1960 census farm population)	1960	Source of the 1960 African farm population figure in Table 1.
Simkins (1984b)	Statistical News Release P11.1 of 12.2.1969 (1960 census farm population)	1960	Supplies the 1960 African farm population figure in Table 1.
Spandau (1972)	Department of Statistics, South African Statistics 1968 and Statistical News Releases P. 8 (5 May 1971) and P. 8.4 (29 Oct 1971)	1959/60 and 1970	Source of Table 2 on average monthly White and Bantu wages in mining, manufacturing and construction, showing a widening differential.
Spandau (1972)	Department of Statistics, Statistical News Releases P. 8 (5 May 1971) and P. 8.4 (29 Oct 1971), 1970 sector wages	1970	Source of Table 3 on 1970 White and Bantu average wages and differentials across six sectors, showing the correlation between White pay and the differential.