1980 HUNGARIAN CENSUS OF POPULATION Summary data (1984)

IV. THE CHANGE IN THE POPULATION'S DEMOGRAPHIC AND EDUCATIONAL CHARAC-TERISTICS

The population by highest education and sex (in the percentage of the corresponding population) 1 0-X years old 15-X years old 18-X years old 25-X years old Year 1 0-X years old at least 8 grades at least secondcompleted Year 0 grade of primary ary school higher education completed education 1960 1970 1980 1.1 32. 8 51.4 66.1 9. 1 15. 9 23.4 2.8 4. 3 6. 5 1960 1970 1980 0.7 Men 34. 5 55. 1 71.1 12. 0 18. 2 24.4 4.7 6. 5 8. 6 Women 1960 3.7 31.3 6.6 1.2 1970 2.3 48.0 13.9 2.4 1980 1.5 61.6 22.4 4.6 The education of the young generations (15-34 years old) differ fundamentally from the average. On the one hand one fourth - mainly men - of this age group was trained in vocational schools. Ten years earlier this proportion was about 14-15 percent. On the other hand the proportion of women with medium level education is well above this rate for men, and the proportion of higher educated women is not lower than the proportion of such men, but in some age groups it exceeds that. THE MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF THOSE WITH MEDIUM LEVEL EDUCATION There are 1 million 900 thousand people who have at least medium level education, this is almost one fourth of the corresponding population, 26 percent of them have also higher level education. The number those who have completed medium level education as highest education, grew one-and-a-half-fold in the course of the past decade. In the first third of the century 200 thousand people completed secondary school, now this number is almost 1 million 400 thousand. In the course of more than half century the growth in the number of those completing secondary school was more dynamic than the growth in the number of people obtaining higher education. The rise of the general educational standard is well indicated by the fact, that in 1920 the proportion of those who completed at least medium level education was 4 percent of the corresponding population now this proportion is 23 percent. At the same time in the years following the First World War, 3 5 percent of those who completed secondary education graduated in higher education, today this rate is hardly more than one fourth. It comes from what has gone before, that the high rise in the educational standard was due first of all - besides the high rise in the proportion of those who completed the 8 grades of primary education - to the growth in the proportion of those who completed secondary school. The change in the number of those who have at least medium level education Year Total Highest education is completed secondary school Completed higher education Total in percentage of the 18-X years old Highest education is completed secondary school Completed higher education Total Highest education is completed secondary school Completed higher education Total

1 = 100 of In percentage the 1920 census 1920 209 923 136 452 73 472 4. 2 65.0 35. 0 100. 0 100. 0 100. 0 1930 274 798 190 024 84 774 4.7 69. 2 30. 8 130. 9 139. 3 115.4 1941 325 683 222 840 102 843 5. 1 68.4 31.6 155. 1 163. 3 140. 0 1949 383 355 276 097 107 2 58 5. 9 72. 0 28. 0 182. 6 202. 3 146. 0 1960 634 734 458 593 176 141 9. 1 72. 2 27. 8 302. 4 336. 1 239.7 1970 1207 762 907 204 300 558 15. 9 75. 1 24. 9 57 5. 3 664. 9 409. 1 1980 1867 011 1382 165 484 846 23.4 74. 0 26. 0 889. 4 1012.9 659. 9 79