Census of British South Africa 1904 (incl. European adult male counts)

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	population census
Producer	Colonial governments of British South Africa
Coverage	1904
Works using it	4

Debates

Debate	Works
Pre-Union colonial economy, the mineral revolution and the South African War	2
White electoral politics, delimitation and party systems	2
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	1
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Christopher (1983a)	South Africa Act 1909, TG 14-1910 (Transvaal) and 1904 census	1904-1911	The 1904 census adult White male population was the basis of the initial provincial apportionment; later censuses (1911, 1946, 1951) underlie claims about the Cape's loss and Afrikaner urbanisation.
Houghton and Dagut (n.d.)	Census of British South Africa, April 1904	April 1904	Shows area and population by colony and race, including the 1904 Transvaal population.
Laurence et al. (1913)	Census of 1904, European male adults (South Africa Act 1909, s.34)	1904	Fixes the statutory Union quota (349,837 European male adults divided by 121 seats) used to allocate seats between provinces.
Walton and Hofmeyr (1912)	1904 Census of European (white) population and voters' roll figures	1904	Used to compare white population with voters and to compute parliamentary seat allocations and the male-adult quota.