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Botswana population censuses

Literature › Primary sources
Kind population census
Producer Botswana Central Statistics Office
Coverage 1971-1991
Works using it 3

Debates

Debate Works
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 3
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 2
Post-apartheid economic policy, governance and corruption 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Kanyenze (2004) Botswana 1991 population census 1991 (with 1981 comparison) Gives the number and origins of non-citizens and migrants in Botswana.
Murray (1980) Botswana National Census of 1971 (as calculated in D. Cooper, National Migration Study Working Paper No 1, 1979) 1971 (paper 1979) Marital status of women with children (43% married, 36% single) shown to be consistent with the Mochudi findings.
Taylor (1990) 1981 Population Census of Botswana 1981 Settlement-level counts of males absent at South African mines are regressed on settlement population, with residuals mapped; also cited for unemployment (12.2%) and economic activity (41.3% in family agriculture).