Directorate of Agricultural Statistics ledger files

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	state archives
Producer	Directorate of Agricultural Statistics
Coverage	1910-2011
Works using it	2

Debates

Debate	Works
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform	2
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control	2
Data reliability and econometric method	2

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Liebenberg (2012a)	Unpublished ledger files and price archives of the Directorate of Agricultural Statistics (DAS 2009)	1910–2011 (prices from 1936/37 and quarterly from 1958)	Gross value of production, farming requisites prices and input expenditure aggregates used to impute prices and build input price series.
Liebenberg (2012b)	Unpublished ledger files and archives of the Directorate of Agricultural Statistics (gross value of production, volume of production, input prices, Farming Requisites Price Index)	1910-2011 (hand-written ledgers before 1980; electronic from 1980)	Source of pre-1947 output estimates, homeland production adjustments and over 262 quarterly input price series used to build the Fisher indexes.