1980 HUNGARIAN CENSUS OF POPULATION Summary data (1984)

VIII. THE CHANGE IN THE SIZE AND COMPOSITION OF HOUSEHOLDS AND FAMILIES

At present every fourth household head is nonmanual, and the proportion of those living in such households is almost the same (25 percent). The households and the household members by the social-occupational group of the household head (percentage) The social-occupational group of the household head Household Members The social-occupational group of the household head 1970 1980 1970 1980 Agricultural manual Active earner 14.7 6. 5 16. 7 7.9 Inactive earner 6,7 7,9 4. 5 5. 3 Together 21.4 14.4 21.2 13. 2 Non-agricultural manual Active earner 43. 6 41.9 48. 5 49. 3 Inactive earner 12. 1 18. 1 8.4 12. 8 Together 55.7 60. 0 56. 9 62. 1 Nonmanual Active earner 18. 7 19.4 19. 1 20.4 Inactive earner 4. 2 6.2 2. 8 4. 3 Together 22. 9 25. 6 21.9 24.7 Total 100. 0 100. 0 100. 0 100. 0 Out of this Active earners together 77. 0 67. 8 84. 3 77. 6 Inactive earners together 23. 0 32. 2 15.7 22.4 The average size of the households of inactive earner household heads decreased in the course of the past decade, first of all because in the couple type families one of the partners died and the other became single. This is also indicated in the considerable growth in the number of single persons. The number of those on child-care-allowance does not have a considerable effect on this indicator, since most of them are wives; the number of those women who are on child-care-allowance and bring up their children alone is insignificant. Taking the households of the active and inactive households heads together, the decrease in the number of persons per 100 households was most considerable in the agricultural manual group (from 292 to 2 55). At the same time the decrease in the number of active earners per 100 households was strongest in this group. The increase in the number of inactive earners and dependants per 100 households was greatest also in this group. The average size of the households decreased also in the households of non-agricultural manual and nonmanual household heads; the value of the indicator is 289 for the former and 269 for the latter, the national average is 279. The number of active earners per 100 households is almost the same in the two groups (138 and 139 respectively), but the number of inactive earners and dependants per 100 active earners is 93 in the case of the nonmanual households, which is well below the average (109), while in the non-agricultural manual group the value of the indicator is close to the average. 122