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

B/ Main characteristics of households and families

40. Families by composition (percentage), average number of children (percentage) by types of locality Type of locality Totál Married couples Lone parents with child(ren) Persons Children Type of locality Totál together without with together fathers mothers Persons totál aged under 15 Type of locality Totál together child(ren) together with child(ren) per 100 families Budapest 19.2 100 0 78 0 35.3 42.7 22.0 5.6 16.5 278 100 62 Other úrban areas 42.1 100 0 85.3 31.9 53.4 14.7 2.8 11.9 298 112 75 Rural areas 38 7 100 0 87.1 36.0 51.1 12.9 2.7 10.2 296 109 72 Totál 100.0 100 0 84.6 34.2 50.4 15.4 3.3 12.1 293 109 71 In the overwhelming majority (80 per cent) of married couples the man is older, in nearly 8 per cent the spouses were born in the same year and it is only in 12 per cent that the woman is older than the man. The age-structure of the couples differs significantly from this in the case of cohabiting partners representing almost 5 per cent of all of married-couple-type families. Among the married couples the proportion of those where the husband is by 3-5 years older than his wife, is the highest (32 per cent) while the proportion of those where the husband is at least by 10 years older than his spouse amounts to 7 per cent The share of those married couples where the wife is by 1-2 years older is alsó 7 per cent The proportions decrease parallel with the increase in the difference in age to the benefit of the wife, and the share of families where the wife is at least by 6 years older than the husband does not even 2 per cent. This declining tendency, however, cannot be established in the case of cohabiting partners where the differences in age, the proportions, scarcely affected by mostly depend on whether the man or the woman is older. 41. Husband-wife couple families by family compositon and the age difference of couples (percentage) Family composition Totál The wife is The wife and the husband are of the same age The wife is Family composition Totál 10-X 6-9 3-5 1-2 The wife and the husband are of the same age 10-X 6-9 3-5 1-2 Family composition Totál years younger than the husband The wife and the husband are of the same age years older than the husband Legally married couples 100 0 7.0 19.4 31.9 21.8 7.6 7.0 3.3 1.4 0.5 Consensual unions 100.0 15.2 15.4 17.7 12.8 7.5 8.7 7.7 8.1 7.0 Totál 100.0 7.4 19.3 31.2 21.4 7.6 7.1 3.5 1.7 0.8 At present, the educational levels of husband and wife (inclusive of cohabiting partners) are identical in 53 per cent of the couples, while ten years ago this proportion was 56 per cent. In the case of nearly each fourth couple (27 per cent) the educational level of the husband in the case of each fifth (20 per cent) the educational level of the wife is higher. The latter proportion is by more than 3 per cent higher than in 1980. Thus in the relations between the educational levels of the spouses and cohabiting partners changes observed alsó in the educational attainment of the population by sex, are reflected. 37