the importance of non-African incomes. Subsistence production is, therefore,
necessarily more important in relation to total African income than it is in rela-
tion to total product of the territories, which is the result of non-African as well
as of African economic activity, as a comparison of Tables IV and V indicates.
But Table V also shows that the differences between the territories in the
importance of the subsistence sector, although still substantial, are far
smaller when subsistence income is compared with total African income than
when it is compared with total territorial income. However, the figures of
Table V still fail to show the extent to which the African population native
to each territory has been drawn away from the subsistence sector into the
money economy. They fail to do so for the reason that the figures of money

income refer to income of Africans in the territory, whether or not they
are natives of the territory or are migrants from elsewhere. And migrant
labour plays an important part in the economy of the Federation.

It is not possible to go any further by means of income statistics in assess-
ing the extent to which the money economy has encroached upon the tradi-
tional economy of each territory. Something can be done with employment
statistics to show the extent to which Africans have been drawn into wage employment. Table VI summarises the information on Africans in employ-

ment obtained in the 1956 census. ¹ Africans in employment in each territory
as a percentage of the de facto ² population of the territory were therefore:

But these figures do not indicate the extent to which the African population
of each territory has been drawn into wage employment, for Table VI shows

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