1970 HUNGARIAN CENSUS OF POPULATION Information on the data collection and processing (1977)

I. THE COMPREHENSIVE REWIEV OF THE DATA COLLECTION AND PROCESSING - 4. Notions applied with the population census

As far as the breakdown according to economic branches is concerned, the former census data underwent a regrouping according to the system being valid in 1970, thus the time series published contain sectoral data of the same content. The classification according to economic branches has to be found in the publication no. 24. as mentioned above (pp. 713-719. ) The system of the individual occupations has been modified in certain respects, as compared to 1960. A part of the changes touches upon the classification by occupational status too, as for instance a business manager employed in the commerce or in the catering trade figured among the manual workers in 1960, while among the intellectuals in 1970. It should be remembered that the occupational and other lists have been prepared also in the past (consequently in 1970 too) on the occasion of the censuses held, taking the requirements of the economic development and differentiation into consideration and keeping an eye on the opportunities of comparison with the past anyway. The realization of the system of planned economy resulted in the establishment of a pattern of sectoral and individual occupations which is generally used through the country. The uniform classification of the occupations renders the working out of a system by the census staff unnecessary. The duty of the latter consists but in the adopting and use of the generally accepted list. d/ THE NOTIONS OF THE HOUSEHOLD AND THE FAMILY The first opportunity afforded to the statistical survey of the families took place in Hungary on the occasion of the census of 1949. The notion of the family to be used with the census (as for instance in 1960 too) was introduced at that time. Accordingly, under family is meant, within the framework formed by persons living together and connected either by the marriage bond or by ties of blood in ascendant or descendant line, or by persons being collaterals or connected by adoption, the sphere consisting of the member's of the "family core" and the kinsmen belonging to it, but forming no separate family core at the same time. Nevertheless, as soon as the primary importance of the household as unit of observation prevailed, the distinction between family and household became unavoided in the data processing. Instead of the family, the notion of the "family core" seemed more acceptable. The census of 1970 followed, with its new family concept, the respective international recommendations. Namely, the Directives of the European Census of the United Nations declare: is "Fur llie pur puses-of the census \|the family h

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A or^t ooupl^ with one or more children jrf" wftateve?=age— or of a parent with one or more childrenyaf whatever Í7 the children never having been married in both cases.] Accordingly, the kinsmen living in common household with the family, do not belong to the family in the strict sense. Consequently, the motion of the family (or the notion of the family core) is fully separated of that of the household. The definition of the household was in 1970 identical with the definition used in 1960; consequently, according to the international directives of the census, under household the sphere of the T ~ ' K^' 3. Népszámlálás 33