1990 POPULATION CENSUS Detailed data based on a 2 per cent representative sample (1992)

I. REVIEW OF THE DATA - A/ Main characteristics of the population

often working in their dwelling probably also contributed to the decrease in commuting. Also the frequent fusions of localities, and annexations to urban areas of the 1980s reduced somewhat the demonstrable number of commuters, since those who went to work from the annexed localities to the respective urban area or locality became residents of the latter by force of the transformation in public administration. During the last ten years the number of commuting males fell to a greater extent than that of females. While the number of males commuting every day fell by 154 000 (by 19 per cent), that of their female counter parts only by 22 000 (by 6 per cent). As a result of the changes in numbers, among the economically active men the share of the commuters declined from 29 per cent to 27 per cent, while among the economically active females the respective proportion did not change (18 per cent). In the development of the age-structure of the commuters a tendency, similar to that in the case of the totality of economically active persons, can be observed. Compared to 1980, the proportion of those aged 30-49 years grew, but the share of the young aged 14-29 years as well as that of persons belonging to older age-groups fell. In 1990, the number of young commuters was nearly by 150 000 lower than in 1980, the joint number of 50 year old and older commuters declined by 41 000. The change in the extent of commuting within particular age-groups (in a positive or negative direction) was near to 2 percentage points in the case of the 40-49 year old and of those over pensionable age, in the other age-groups it remained within one percentage point. 28. Age composition of active earners working at their place of residence Total (1000 persons) Aged Male aged 50-59, female aged 50-54 Male aged 60 or more, female aged 55 or more Denomination Total (1000 persons) 14-29 30-39 40-49 Male aged 50-59, female aged 50-54 Male aged 60 or more, female aged 55 or more 1980 Working at the place of residence 3850 30.0 27.3 23.7 15.2 3.8 Daily commuters 1218 41.0 23.4 20.8 13.6 1.2 Total 5069 32.6 26.4 23.0 14.9 3.2 Daily commuters in percentage of active earners 24.0 30.2 21.3 21.7 22.1 9.0 1990 Working at the place of residence 3425 24.5 32.1 28.7 13.5 1.1 Daily commuters 1042 33.7 29.3 23.6 13.0 0.4 Total 4467 26.7 31.5 27.5 13.4 0.9 Daily commuter in percentage of active earners 23.3 29.5 21.8 20.0 22.6 10.7 The composition of the commuters by major divisions of the national economy changed significantly. The decline in the number of commuters working in manufacturing, having started already before 1980, accelerated very much in the past decade. While between 1970 and 1980, the number of commuters working in manufacturing fell by scarcely more than four thousand, not quite by 1 per cent, between 1980 and 1990, it decreased by more than 22 per cent, by 102 000 persons. The very significant decline (by 31 per cent) in the number of commuters working in construction having occurred in the period since 1980, on top of compensating for the growth by 30 000 in the total number which had taken place in the former decade, produced a regress by more than one tenth (12 per cent) compared also to 1970. 26