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

B/ Main characteristics of households and families

More than one fifth of the households live in Budapest, their share in the households of the country feli by somewhat less than 1 percentage point (from 22,2 per cent to 21,4 per cent) during twenty years. At the same time, the proportions of households living in the other úrban and rural areas changed places: that of the former grew from 37 per cent to 42 per cent, while that of the latter feli from 41 per cent to 37 per cent. Similarly to the former decades the share of households consisting of families is the highest (76 per cent) in rural areas, while in the capital their proportion is scarcely more than two thirds (68 per cent). In the provinces, however, a certain equalization can be observed, since in the úrban areas this proportion is only by less than 1 per cent lower. The share of persons living alone is the highest in Budapest (more than one quarter of the households belong to this group) while the respective proportion in the rural and úrban areas is scarcely more than one fifth. The average size of the households is the smallest in the capital, where there are 240 persons per 100 households. The value of this indicator is the highest (270 persons) in rural areas, in the provinciai towns (268 persons), it approaches the average of the country from above. The data show that in Budapest the average size of the households decreased to a much smaller extent compared to the two other locality types. In the past 20 years the decrease was only by 14 persons in the capital, of them only 3 persons in the 1980s. Ali this, however, is not valid for the other úrban and rural areas where the decrease in the number of persons per 100 households was almost equal by locality types both in the 1970s and in the 1980s. 31. Number and size of households by type of locality Type of locality Number (1000) In percentage of all localities Persons per 100 households Type of locality 1970 1980 1990 1970 1980 1990 1970 1980 1990 Budapest 748 807 815 22.2 21.7 21.4 254 243 240 Other úrban areas 1239 1489 1591 36.7 40.0 41.7 294 281 260 Rural areas 1390 1423 1409 41.2 38.3 36.9 319 297 278 96 per cent of the family households consist of one family, their proportion is by about 2 per cent higher than in 1980 and by 3 per cent higher than 20-30 years ago. However, behind this small change in proportion, there is a great shift in structure. While in 1970, of the one-family households one parent (father or mother) lived together with his/her child or children, only in each tenth, at present, already each seventh is such. 88 per cent of the one-family households are identical with the family, i.e. relatives or non-relatives who don't belong to the family nucleus don't live in the household. Among the one-family households where a married couple lives without a child the proportion of families living with an ascendent is 6-7 per cent, while the respective proportion among the households consisting of a married couple with child and of one parent with child, respectively, is equally nearly 9 per cent. This has two primary causes: on the one hand, among the families living without a child there are relatively many old couples where an ascendent is rare, on the other hand, in their case there is no reason which forces them to live together with ascendents who would participate in rearing of and looking after the children. It must be mentioned that the 6-7 per cent proportion of the married couples living without a child covers alsó the cases when the parent of one of the spouses (or of both) remains alone and becomes an ascendent and moves to his/her child's after the death of his/her spouse. The average household size is over 3 persons in the one-family households, too. There are 310 persons per 100 such households. In the families with married couples the value of this indicator is 318 29