1996. ÉVI MIKROCENZUS Az egyszemélyes háztartások fő jellemzői (1998)

FŐBB EREDMÉNYEK

Only 3-4 percent of lone persons are dependents, while the respective rate within the whole population exceeds 28. The economic activity of lone persons is lower in general than that of the whole population, except the group of those aged 25-29, where it is slightly higher. Almost a half (49 percent) of active earner lone persons are manual workers, most of them (45 percent of the whole) in non-agricultural occupations. More than a half of non-manual workers have completed third-level educational attainments. In the capital, 68 percent of active earner lone persons are non-manual workers, with the highest share of chiefs (8 percent), those perform tasks needing third-level educational attainment (22 percent), and also entrepreneurs and persons of liberal profession (18 percent). The proportion of non-manual workers is more than 40 percent in smaller towns, about 50 percent of them have a diploma, while in rural areas, only 25 percent perform non-manual tasks. 10 percent of lone persons living in rural areas pursue manual agricultural occupations as subordinates or members of cooperatives, the share of which is three and seven times more than that in smaller towns and county towns, respectively. . The vast majority of lone persons living in dwellings

1 occupy their dwellings as owners or owners' relatives

2 . After a small, 8 percentage point increse in the eighties, their proportion has grown by 23 to 86 percent in the last six years, as a result of the privatisation of state-owned dwellings. Within that, the share of those occupying the dwelling as owners has increased in a slightly larger measure, by 25 percentage points, so their proportion is 80 percent in the spring of 1996. The share of owners is particularly high among the old: nine-tenth of those aged 60 or over live in their own dwellings. Simultaneously with the growth in the rate of owners, the share of those living in rented flats has decreased. At present, only 12 from 100 lone persons are tenants, while the respective proportion is less than 10 percent among all households. Almost three-tenth of lone persons live in one-room dwellings and nearly 50 percent of them in two-room ones. The share of those living in flats with three rooms is 18-19 percent and not quite 5 percent live in dwellings larger than that. Compared to the situation six years before, these rates show some increase in the case of those living in two- and three-room dwellings, and a fall in other categories. The smallest dwellings are occupied by lone persons living in Budapest, almost two-fifth of them live in one- and two-room flats, equally. With the status of location decreasing, the proportion of lone persons living in larger dwellings is growing. The share of lone persons occupying dwellings with three or more rooms, is 21 percent in the capital and 23 in county towns, while it is nearly a quarter both in smaller towns and rural areas. The share of lone persons living in dwellings provided with network water was 57 percent in 1980, while it is 80 percent in 1996. The respective proportion is 87 percent among all households. In the nineties, the share of households living in dwellings supplied with sewage grew in a similar degree as that of network water users. Their proportion increased from 76 percent in the beginning of the decade to 83 percent in the spring of 1996. 72 percent of lone persons live in dwellings supplied with flush toilet, while 76.5 in dwellings having a bathroom. The relevant shares within all households are 82 and 86 percent, respectively. 1 A small prportion of lone persons live in so-called other occupied housing units. The examination of housing condotions do not cover the about 2200 households of that type. 2 In the following, without paticular mention, families living in the dwelling as owners or owners' relatives and as tenants or tenants' relatives, are referred to as owners and as tenants. 15