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THE PREPARATION OF NATIONAL ACCOUNTING ESTIMATES FOR SOUTH WEST AFRICA AND A PRESENTATION OF CONSOLIDATED SERIES FOR SOUTH AFRICA, SOUTH WEST AFRICA AND THE THREE BRITISH PROTECTORATES (1920–59)
Author(s) -
Krogh D. C.,
Willers J. J. D.
Publication year - 1962
Publication title -
review of income and wealth
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.024
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1475-4991
pISSN - 0034-6586
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4991.1963.tb01005.x
Subject(s) - presentation (obstetrics) , citation , north west , national accounts , library science , west germany , geography , history , political science , economic history , accounting , economics , law , computer science , medicine , physical geography , radiology
Tms paper consists of two parts. The first deals with some problems encountered in preparing estimates of income, expenditure and saving for South West Africa, while the second sets out provisional national accounting series incorporating the Republic of South Africa, South West Africa, Basutoland, Swaziland and Bechuanaland, for the last forty years.l A brief description of the methods and sources employed together with some of the more important estimates in connection with South West Africa appears in an appendix? In the extension of the geographical coverage of South Africa's system of national accounts to include the four territories in question, it was decided to adopt the framework and concepts in use in the Rep~bl ic .~ Since the four economies are relatively small and the purpose of the consolidation is to obtain an historical series, it follows that negligible margins of error are not required. The consolidated series are expressed to the nearest million pounds and the estimates for South West Africa to the nearest £100,000, i.e. the accounting unit applied in the case of South Africa. Attention will be focused on the case of South West Africa in examining some of the estimating problems encountered, because quantitatively speaking it is the