1980 HUNGARIAN CENSUS OF POPULATION Summary data (1984)

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

The main indicators of the household by the social-occupational group of the household head The social-occupational group of the household head Number of persons per 100 households Number of active earners per 100 households Number of inactive earners and dependants per 100 active earners The social-occupational group of the household head 1970 1980 1970 1980 1970 1980 Agricultural manual Active earner 335 339 176 190 90 78 Inactive earner 197 186 33 33 506 462 Together 292 255 131 104 123 145 Non-agricultural manual Active earner 329 329 174 181 89 81 Inactive earner 207 197 39 37 428 437 Together 302 289 145 138 109 110 Nonmanual Active earner 302 293 176 173 71 69 Inactive earner 195 194 34 34 483 469 Together 282 269 150 139 88 93 Total 295 279 143 133 106 109 Out of this Active earner 323 319 175 180 85 78 Inactive earner 202 194 36 35 458 449 THE COMPOSITION OF FAMILIES At the time of the census 8 million 898 thousand people out of the 9 million 374 thousand population living in family-households lived in 3 million 28 thousand families, and 477 thousand was the number of those relative and not relative persons who lived together with a family. The number of families is by 5 percent higher than 10 years earlier, but the rise in the number of those who lived in families hardly exceeded 2 percent, which means that the average family size - the number of family members per 100 families - decreased from 301 to 294. The composition of the families changed only a little since the last census. The proportion of families which consist of a couple decreased a bit, and in correspondence to this the proportion of single parent - child/children families increased a bit. In the couple family-type the proportion of families without children increased in relation to the proportion of families with children; the proportion of families without children is more than one third of all families. In the past decade - as mentioned earlier - there was an increase in the number and proportion of those families where one of the parents is missing as a result of divorce, separation or widowing. The number of families remained without mother increased by 19 thousand since 1970. The majority (84 percent) of the single parent - child/children families are mothers living with their child or children. 37 percent of the mothers living together with their children are widowed, 34 percent are divorced, 24 percent are married (but separated) and 5 percent are unmarried. Among them more than two fifths of the widowed are 60 or older, more than one third of the divorced belong to the 30-39 age group. The development of the family composition , % (percentage) Family composition 1960 1970 1980 Index: 1980 1970=100.0 Couple without children 30. 8 33. 7 35.2 109.4 Couple with children 55.8 56. 1 53. 5 99. 9 Together 86. 6 89.9 88.7 103.4 Father with children 1.2 1.3 1.9 150. 0 Mother with children 12. 2 8. 9 9.4 111.4 Together 13.4 10.2 11.3 116.3 Total 100. 0 100. 0 100. 0 104.7 123