Census enumerators' returns and summary returns

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	population census
Producer	Union census authorities / Central Statistical Service (Central Archives Depot)
Coverage	1911-1985
Works using it	3

Debates

Debate	Works
Urban segregation, Group Areas and the apartheid city	2
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	1
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Christopher (1990)	Comparison of census-day enumerator classification with published census, 1911 and 1960 (e.g. Beaufort West, Bloemfontein, Kokstad)	1911, 1951, 1960	Documents classification inconsistencies and the decision to use the population group in the enumerators' summary books for calculations.
Christopher (1990)	Enumerators' summary returns (enumeration-tract population by race), censuses 1951, 1960, 1970, 1985 (Central Statistical Service, Pretoria)	1951-1985	Source of tract-level race-group populations for the 1951-85 segregation indices, the core dataset of the paper.
Christopher (1990)	Enumerators' summary returns (enumeration-tract population by race), post-Union censuses 1911, 1921, 1936 (Central Archives Depot, Pretoria)	1911-1936	Source of tract-level population by race group used to compute Duncan indices of segregation for towns in 1911, 1921 and 1936.
Christopher (1991)	Population Census 1951 (enumerators' returns and census tract maps), Central Statistical Service	1951-1985	Used to show population redistribution between 1951 and 1985 (Figure 6) and the size of communities before proclamation.
Christopher (1994b)	Manuscript enumerators' returns of the 1951 census (Central Statistical Services, Pretoria)	1951	Author computed town-level indices of residential segregation for Whites, Coloured, Asians and Blacks, which carry the claims about pre-apartheid urban segregation.