Census of the Transvaal Colony and Swaziland / Orange River Colony 1904

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	population census
Producer	Transvaal and Orange River Colony governments
Coverage	1904
Works using it	5

Debates

Debate	Works
Census, race classification and demographic data	4
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis	1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	1
Unemployment: causes, measurement and labour market institutions	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Christopher (2002a)	Census of the Transvaal Colony and Swaziland 1904 (and Orange River Colony 1904 census)	1904	Shows the 1904 census enumerated all groups as Europeans, Natives, Asiatics and Mixed, with coordination across colonies.
Christopher (2002b)	Census of the Transvaal Colony and Swaziland 1904 / Census of the Orange River Colony 1904	1904	Shows the 1904 inter-colonial enumeration with categories Europeans, Natives, Asiatics and Mixed, and Asiatic absence in the Orange River Colony.
Christopher (2009a)	Orange River Colony census 1904 and Transvaal Colony and Swaziland census 1904	1904	Shows the post-war censuses following imperial guidelines, enumerating all groups and recording religion but not language.
Christopher (2009b)	Orange River Colony census 1904 and Transvaal Colony and Swaziland census 1904	1904	Shows the post-war censuses enumerated all groups and attributes, with religion but not language.
Fedderke and Simkins (2004)	1904 Transvaal Census	1904	Shows twice as many children in school as in 1898, taken as evidence that the colonial administration governed more in line with growth.