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

B/ Main characteristics of households and families

and in one-parent families with child 264 persons. The slight difference has two main causes: on the one hand, with families where only one parent lives with his/her never married child there are more relatives and/or non-relatives living together, on the other hand, among the families with married couples the proportion of the childless is relatively high (34 per cent). The first is supported by the fact, too, that among the one-family households alsó persons not belonging to the family nucleus live in 12 per cent of the families with married couples and in more than 15 per cent of the one-parent families with child. Compared to 1960, the proportion of households consisting of two families among the family households feli by about 3 percentage points and is, at present, between 3 and 4 per cent, while the number of households with three or more families did not even attain 3 000 (2 900 households) at the beginning of 1990 and this is scarcely 1 per thousand of the family households. In almost 99 per cent of the two-family households, parents live together with the family of their child - maybe, grandparents with the family of their grandchild -, i.e. in the two-family households relatives of direct line living together has become almost exclusive while the number and proporton of households where the families living together are not relatives are very low. Among the two-family households, where a relation of direct line is between the families (i.e. parent — child or grandparent — grandchild relation) the proportion of households in which one of the families consists of one parent with child is 28 per cent while in a further 4 per cent both families are of this type. 32. Changes in the composition of family-households Household composition Percentage Persons per 100 households Household composition 1960 1970 1980 1990 1960 1970 1980 1990 One-family households Families with married couple 84. .0 84. .0 81, .7 331 321 318 Lone parents with child(ren) 9. .1 10, .5 14, .6 275 261 264 Together 93. .6 93, .2 94. .5 96, .4 334 325 314 310 Two-family households 6. .2 6. .7 5, .4 3 .5 538 543 538 531 Three or more-family households 0. .2 0. .2 0, .2 0 .1 822 823 824 857 Totál family-households 100. .0 100 .0 100, .0 100 .0 347 341 327 318 Examining the size of households by the number of the household members one sees that in the past decade, at an increase in the number and proportion of persons living alone, it is only the number and proportion of households consisting of two members which grew, among the households consisting of three or more persons there is a decline in all cases. This tendency, however, developed so not only in the 1980s but — apart from somé insignificant shifts in the opposite direction — could be observed already from 1960, on. At present, of each 100 households two persons live in 30, while the one- and two-person households jointly constitute more than half (52 per cent) of the totál number of the households. The proportion of households consisting of three and four members is alsó significant (21 and 19 per cent, respectively). On the other hand, the proportion of households consisting of six persons and, even more, of seven or more persons is very low. These latter together represent not even 1 per cent of the totál number of households (in 1960 their proportion was still 3 per cent). 30