1980 HUNGARIAN CENSUS OF POPULATION Summary data (1984)

VIII. THE CHANGE IN THE SIZE AND COMPOSITION OF HOUSEHOLDS AND FAMILIES

past 10 years only the 2 active earners households proportion grew among the households of active earners. In the past decade there was a rise in the number of those on child - care-allowance, which means that the growth in the proportion of the 2 active earner members households shows only a part of reality. Women on child-care-<allowance are considered inactive earners. The decrease in the proportion of households with three or more active earner members is connected to the decrease in the number of more-families households. The development of the earners composition of the households can be indicated even better with the ratio of active earners per 100 households, the value of which decreased from 143 to 133 in the course of the past decade. The number of inactive earners and dependants per 100 active earners increased from 106 to 109 in the same time. The households by the number of active earners (percentage) Number of active Household Index: Active earner earners 197 0 1980 1980 1970=100.0 1970 1980 0 2.4 1 35. 3 2 34. 1 3 8.8 4-X 3.1 Only inactive 16. 3 Total 100.0 Number of active earners per 100 households 143 Number of inactive earners and dependents per 100 active earners 106 1.5 67. 8 31. 0 96. 9 24. 6 23. 3 34. 5 111.3 47. 7 51.7 7.9 99. 3 18.4 17. 8 2. 3 80.4 9. 3 7. 2 22. 8 154. 1 100. 0 100. 0 100. 0 100. 0 133 109 THE AGE STRUCTURE OF THE HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS If we examine the composition of households by the age of the members we can conclude, that one third of all households - almost half of the family-households - consist of young and middle aged persons, generally parents and children. 99 percent of these households are family-households. There are relatively few such households where the members belong to the same age group (only young, only middle aged or only old). A considerable proportion of these households consist of only old persons and half of the old households are single person households. THE SOCIAL-OCCUPATIONAL COMPOSITION OF THE HOUSEHOLDS The changes in the social-occupational structure of the whole society, and the shift in the proportion of active - inactive earners affected considerably the social - occupational composition of the households. Since 1970 - as a result of the great increase in the number of pensioners - there was a considerable increase in the proportion of households of inactive earner household heads (from 23 percent to 32 percent), in correspondence with this the proportion of households of active earner household heads obviously decreased. Taking the households of active and inactive earner households heads as a whole we find that the proportion of households of agricultural manual household heads decreased from 21 percent to 14 percent in the past 10 years. The fall in the proportion of persons living in such households was even more considerable (from 21 percent to 13 percent). The decrease was caused by the considerable fall in the proportion of agricultural manual active earner household heads (from 15 percent to 7 percent), which could not be compensated by the slight rise in the proportion of households of agricultural manual inactive earner household heads. In the two other social-occupational groups - the non-agricultural manuals and the nonmanuals - the change was different. At present 60 percent of the household heads belong to the non-agricultural manual group, and the proportion of those living in such households is slightly more (62 percent). These proportions in 1970 were 56 percent and 57 percent respectively. 121