Namibia, labour-sending countries)¶

Literature › Primary sources


Kind	population census
Producer	Respective territorial governments
Coverage	1911-1992
Works using it	6

Debates¶

Debate	Works
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation	4
Census, race classification and demographic data	2
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	1
Post-apartheid economic policy, governance and corruption	1

Works using this source¶

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Christopher (2009a)	Southern Rhodesia, Basutoland and South West Africa censuses (1921, 1926, 1956, 1960, 1970, 1981); Namibia 1991 census	1921-1991	Used to show regional coordination or divergence of census language questions and racial classifications with South Africa's.
Christopher (2009b)	South West Africa and Namibia censuses 1960, 1970, 1981, 1991	1960-1991	Shows that SWA censuses followed South African lines, and that Namibia dropped the race question after independence.
Christopher (2009b)	Southern Rhodesia censuses 1921 and 1926; Basutoland 1956 census	1921-1956	Shows coordination of neighbouring censuses with South Africa and the removal of the English/Dutch language question after incorporation was rejected.
Kanyenze (2004)	Namibia 1991 population census	1991	Gives the number of persons born outside Namibia.
Kanyenze (2004)	Zimbabwe 1992 census	1992	Gives the foreign-born population and the composition of non-citizens by origin.
Lucas (1987a)	Population censuses around 1970 for labor-supplying countries	c.1970 (with intercensal trends)	Establishes the stock of miners relative to de jure male population aged 18-35, and intercensal trends used to interpolate population and wage series.
Lucas (1987b)	1970 censuses (de jure male population ages 18-35) combined with stock of men employed in South African mines	c. 1970	Establishes the scale of mine recruitment relative to the young male population (over 80% Lesotho, about 50% Botswana, about 15% Mozambique).
Sanderson (1961)	Southern Rhodesia Census 1911 (employers' returns)	1911	Registers 12,881 Nyasas by employers' returns, used to infer a larger inflow.