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

C/ Housing, the housing conditions of the population

Compared to the results of the 1980 census, the average floor-space of the dwellings improved in all settlement types: in Budapest, in the other úrban areas and in the rural areas it is larger by, 2 respectively, 7, 9 and 12 m . In the provinces, the differences in the size of dwellings are compensated for by higher occupancy as a result of which floor-space per one inhabitant is exactly the same in Budapest and in the provinciai towns (24 m ), from which the respective figure in the rural areas 2 (27 m ) does not differ significantly either. It is interesting that the occupancy of middle-size (502 80 m ) dwellings of is much smaller in the rural areas than in the úrban areas or in Budapest though — as a whole — the number of inhabitants in rural dwellings is higher. Studying the rooms and the size of dwellings it becomes visible, too, that there are no significant differences in the number of rooms per 100 dwellings between the úrban and rural dwellings with regard to the number of rooms per 100 dwellings but with regard to their, floor-space of the latter are already much larger, i.e. places in the rural dwellings are, in generál, more spacious. This latter statement is in close relation with building habits and with the change in constrution forms reflected alsó in the development of the composition of the housing stock by character of ownership. 47. The ownership of the occupied dwellings Year Totál dwellings Personal property State and other property Year Totál dwellings in a detached house in condominium or freehold fiat dwelling cooperative State and other property In thousands 1980 3417 2157 210 173 877 1990 3637 2197 415 215 811 Percentage 1980 100.0 63.1 6.1 5.1 25.7 1990 100.0 60.4 11.4 5.9 22.3 Dwellings built since 1980 number (1000) 631 337 164 47 83 percentage 100.0 53.4 26.0 7.4 13.2 Comparing the distribution of the dwellings built since 19B0 and earlier by character of ownership, we can observe, on the one hand, a growing prevalence of constructions from priváté resources, and, on the other hand, a restructuring between the forms of ownership. The proportion of condominiums increased to the detrimént of the construction of family houses. One of the main reasons of this increase is that the role the state is ready to play in the construction of dwellings is constantly diminishing. As against the 60 000 state dwellings built in the first half of the decade, after 1985, already only 23 000 were built in this form of ownership. Naturally, the distribution of dwellings by the title of use shows a very similar situation, i.e. these data alsó show the decreasing proportion of the stateowned dwellings. An important figure of earlier population censuses was the number of co-tenancies. At present it is not important anymore, since, in the provinces, co-tenancy practically ceased and in Budapest, too, it is very rare (0.2 per cent). 41