Stats SA agricultural employment surveys and census of commercial agriculture

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	official statistical series
Producer	Statistics South Africa
Coverage	1960-2007
Works using it	2

Debates

Debate	Works
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control	2
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Atkinson (2007)	StatsSA/NDA (2000) Employment trends in agriculture in South Africa; StatsSA 2000 Employment trends in agriculture	1960-2001	Supplies farm employment totals, wage distributions, skills and permanent/casual shares.
Atkinson (2007)	StatsSA/NDA 2000 survey of 4 100 commercial farms	1994-1999	Shows declines in regular, seasonal and family-based workers after 1994.
Roberts (2009)	StatsSA Survey of Large Scale Agriculture 2006 / gross farming income by division 2002 (StatsSA 2007c, quoted in Antrobus and Antrobus 2008)	2002	Table 6.1 gross farming income by main division, showing the dominance of livestock in Albany.
Roberts (2009)	StatsSA employment and labour statistics: Employment Trends in Agriculture (2000), P0210 (2007a), Census of Commercial Agriculture 2002 (2005a) and 2007 (2009), Statistical release 11-02-01 (2005b)	1954-2007	National context on agricultural employment share, regular versus casual labour trends, and share of in-kind pay.