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

B/ Main characteristics of households and families

38 Families by the totál number of children and by the number of children aged under 15 (percentage) Number of children By the totál number of children By the number of children aged under 15 1949 1960 1970 1980 1990 1960 1970 1980 1990 0 26. .8 30, .8 33.7 35 .2 34.2 48.4 54.0 54, .4 55, .0 1 31. .7 34 .7 35.4 33 .7 31.9 26.7 27.2 23 ,4 23. 6 2 21. .8 21 .6 22.3 24 .8 27.1 16.4 14.4 18 .1 17. .5 3 10, .2 7, .8 5.6 4 .7 5.4 5.4 2.9 3, .2 3. .1 4-x 9. .4 5, .1 3.0 1, .7 1.4 3.1 1.5 1 .0 0. .8 Totál 100, .0 100 .0 100.0 100 .0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100 .0 100 0 Till 1980, the number of children per 100 families feli continuously in both major family types: with a married couple and, respectively, with one-parent-one-child. As to all families, as against 152 in 1949, in 1900, it was already only 105, i.e. the average number of children per family was scarcely over one. In the 1980s, there was a slight increase: the value of the indicator rose by 4 persons (to 109 persons). A more exact picture can be received on the basis of the average number of children in families with children. In this case, there are 165 children per 100 families with children, as against 162, observed ten years earlier, i.e. the extent of the growth scarcely differs from that in the case of the number of children in all families. 39. Number of children per 100 families by family composition Family composition 1949 1960 1970 1900 1990 Married couples with child(ren) 211 187 171 167 171 Lone parent with child(ren) 193 157 149 140 146 Families with child(ren) together 208 182 167 162 165 All families 152 126 111 105 109 Not quite one fifth (19 per cent) and a further 42 per cent of the families live in Budapest and in the other úrban areas, respectively. These proportions don't correspond completely to the distribution of the population by locality types. In the capital, there are 278 persons per 100 families while in the úrban and rural areas 298 and 296 persons, respectively, nearly the same number. Thus the average family size is the lowest in Budapest, while the same indicator of the other úrban areas is somewhat higher compared to the rural areas which can be attributed to the more unfavourable age-structure of the rural population and to the higher proportion of more aged married couples among them This is supported by the fact, too, that the share of married couples living childless is by 4 percentage points higher in the rural than in the úrban areas. The proportion of one-parent-with-children families is very high (22 per cent) in Budapest, which means that each fourth-fifth family is without father or mother In the úrban and rural areas each v Ji seventh and, respectively, only each eighth family is such. It is worth mentioning that of the oneparent-with-child/ren families the father lives together with his child/ren in each forth in the capital and in each fifth in the rural and in the other úrban areas. In Budapest, there are 100 children per 100 families, in the other úrban areas 112 and in the rural areas 109 children. This latter exactly corresponds to the average of the country. The evolution in the number of children aged under 15 years per 100 families by locality types is almost conpletely identical with the respective figures calculated for all children, but for its extent which is — naturally — smaller: in the rural and the other úrban areas it is two thirds, in the capital it is somewhat more than three fifths of the figures calculated for all children. 36