Measurement and analysis of rural household income in a dualistic economy: The case of South Africa

Johann Kirsten and W. Moldenhauer

Agrekon, 2006, vol. 45, issue 01, 18

Abstract: Government Departments in South Africa utilise a number of different data sets on income of rural households. These include the Population Census, the October Household Survey of 1995 and 2000, the Rural Household Survey of 1997 and the various agricultural censuses (1996 and 2003). All of these use different approaches in obtaining household income. The agricultural census, for example, only reports on farm income excluding the non-farm income. This paper reviews the different sources of household income data, their measurement techniques and the utilisation thereof. The difference in application of various surveys in the former homeland areas and the so-called commercial farming areas are also shown. In the case of the former homeland areas integrated rural household data are used for poverty measurement purposes. The context and methodologies of these surveys are discussed in detail.

Keywords: Consumer/Household; Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.31735

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