1996. ÉVI MIKROCENZUS A háztartások lakáskörülményei (1997)

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INTRODUCTION The Hungárián Central Statistical Office carried out a microcensus on a 2 percent housing and population sample as of April 1, 1996. The first volume of the series containing the data of the microcensus was published in March 1997 entitled „Population and housing data", presenting an overall picture of the socio-demographic situation of our country in the 90s, and making reference to somé aspects included in the present volume, too. The present publication contains data on the housing conditions of households and of their members. The textual analysis consists of two parts. The first one is presenting the main characteristics of the dwellings occupied by households (type of ownership, size, year of construction, material of walling, equipment, level of comfort, type of environment) combining with the number of households and families living in the dwelling. Further, households are analysed according to several variables (e.g. size, age composition, economic activity and sociooccupational structure) combined with the characteristics of the dwellings occupied by them. The analysis is followed by summary tables including time series and detailed tabulations with the microcensus data. These latter are supplemented with data series broken down by counties, locality types and size-classes of locality. The last chapter of the volume contains the explanation of the concepts used. Without striving after completeness, the results allow for the following major statements: • In April 1996, there were 3,864 thousand households living in 3,767 thousand occupied dwellings, thus the number of households per one occupied dwelling slightly exceeded 1. The value of this indicator has showed a gradually decreasing trend during the last 15 years, as a result of the higher increase in the number of dwellings with respect to that of households in the 80s on the one hand, and of the decrease in the number of households parallel to a moderate increase in the number of dwellings in the 90s, on the other hand. • In 1980, 90 percent of the dwellings were occupied by one household, and this rate changed into 91 percent in 1990 and 96 percent in 1996. Simultaneously, the proportion of dwellings occupied by two households decreased from 8 to 3 percent, while the share of dwellings occupied by three or more households has declined to its one-third. At present, in 69 percent of dwellings occupied by one household, there is living one family, while the share of dwellings occupied by non-family households is 28 percent, of which 24 percent are occupied by a single person. • In 1980, 69 percent of the households occupied the dwellings as owner or owner's relatíve. This rate did not grow significantly the same during the next decade despite somé perceptible effects of the privatisation of state-owned dwellings. The actual break-through has come about in the early 90s, when the share of households occupying the dwellings by owner's tenure has grown to 89 percent, while that of tenants has decreased by 14 percentage points, under 10 percent. The growth in the share of owner-occupied dwellings was particularly high (36 percentage points) in the 11