1996. ÉVI MIKROCENZUS Az élettársi kapcsolatban élők adatai (1998)

AZ ÉLETTÁRSI KAPCSOLATBAN ÉLŐK TÁRSADALMI-DEMOGRÁFIAI JELLEMZŐI ÉS LAKÁSVISZONYAI

Taking into consideration both married couple and consensual union-type families with and without children together, couples with partners of the same age, have most children. The number of children per 100 families is 92 among consensual unions and 112 among married couples. Besides, in almost all age-difference categories, married couples bring up more children, only in somé cases of big age difference between the two partners, can be marked nearly same number of children. The larger is the difference between the ages, the less is the number of children. This decrease is more significant when female spouse or cohabiting partner is the older. Age-difference has a smaller influence on the number of children among consensual unions. A close relation can be shown between the type of family, the educational attainment of the parents and the number of children in the family. The share of consensual unions with one child where the parents completed the 8th grade of generál school at most, is 30 percent (23 among married couples). The more children they bring up, the higher is this rate: e.g. in the case of consensual unions with three children it is above 52 percent (this share doesn't reach one third among married couples). The rates are virtually independent írom the number of children in families where both partners have a certificate of apprentice or vocational school. Among those having completed secondary school, too, only the share of cohabiting partners with three or more children (2 percent) is behind the respective rates of those with one or two children (8 percent). Consensual unions with partners having completed third-level education are the most írequent (4 percent) among families with two children, while it can scarcely be found among those with three or more children (0.2 percent). The share of married spouses with university or college diploma is alsó the highest (9 percent) among those with two children, but the proportion of married couples with one or with three or more children comes close to this (7-8 percent). In both types of family, independently of the number of children, couples with pertners having the same educational level are the most írequent. Their rate is the highest among couples with no children: 46 percent among consensual unions and 57 among married couples. The number of children per 100 consensual unions of this type, is 81, while it is 79 among those where the female cohabiting partner has higher educational attainment, and 93 among those with the opposite situation. Within married couples the number of children is the highest in couples with a more educated wife (114 children per 100 families), while it is the lowest (99) among couples with the same educational attainments. The index is between the two (106) where the husband has a higher degree. As far as housing conditions are concerned, 93 percent of married couples, but only slightly more than 75 percent of consensual unions use their dwelling as owners

2 or owners' relatives. Similarly to other types of family, it is in the capital that this share is the lowest (62 percent), while it is by 7 percentage points higher in county towns and reaches 80 percent in other úrban areas. This is only in rural areas that this situation can be considered as generál: 90 percent of these families own their place of residence. Every fifth consensual unión live in the dwelling as tenant, while the respective share is only 7 percent among married couples. Their proportion is particularly high in the capital (35 percent), it alsó nears 30 in county towns, while it is under the country average in other úrban areas. In rural areas, this type of occupancy is less typical, its share is only 7 percent. The large proportion of tenants in the capital and county towns points out that, as against married couples, few of consensual unions were able to purchase their rented fiat in the tenement-dwelling privatisation process. Lease of the dwelling is slightly more írequent among childless consensual unions, while the share of owners is higher 2 In the following, without particular mention, families living in the dwelling as owners or owners' relatives and as tenants (co-tenants) or tenants' relatives, are referred as owners and as tenants. 21