1980 HUNGARIAN CENSUS OF POPULATION Summary data (1984)

X. THE HOUSING SITUATION, THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE POPULATION'S HOUSING CONDITIONS

The occupied dwellings by the year of the construction and the number of rooms 1980 (percentage) Number of Total -1899 19001920194519601970room s Total -1899 1919 1944 1959 1969 1979 1 26. 7 46. 4 41. 5 38. 1 28. 2 15. 9 8. 0 2 49. 0 41.2 43. 1 44. 1 55. 3 58. 3 49.4 3-X 24. 3 12. 4 15.4 17.8 16. 5 25. 8 42. 6 Total 100. 0 100. 0 100. 0 100. 0 100. 0 100. 0 100. 0 The lately built dwellings are larger, better equipped and have more comfort than the old ones. While 26 percent of the dwellings built before the turn of the century have full comfort. These proportions are 33 percent for dwellings built between 1900 and 1944, 43 percent for dwellings built between 1945 and 1960, 66 percent for dwellings built in the sixties and 80 percent for those built in the seventies. 4 percent of the dwellings with full comfort, 58 percent with half comfort were built after the World War II. While 2 5 percent of the occupied dwellings were built in the seventies, 39 percent of the ones with full comfort were built in the same period. Only 9 percent of the dwellings built since 1970 have half comfort and 10 percent have no comfort. THE OCCUPIED DWELLINGS BY THE SOCIAL-OCCUPATIONAL GROUP OF THE HOUSEHOLD HEAD The change in the distribution of dwellings by the social-occupational group of the household head reflects the social-economic processes of Hungary. Since 1970 - in correspondence with the increasing number of pensioners - the number of dwellings with inactive earner household head grew by almost two thirds. Due to this, the proportion of active earner household heads decreased from 77 percent to 67 percent. The proportion of dwellings of the agricultural manual household heads decreased considerably from 15 percent in 1970 to 7 percent in 1980. The proportions for non-agricultural manual and nonmanual household heads hardly changed, at the end of the decade the former lived in 41 percent and the latter in 19 percent of the dwellings. The occupied dwellings by the social-occupational group of the household head (percentage) Dwellings where the household head is Year Total agricultural manual non-agricultural manual nonmanual inactive earner active earner inactive earner 1960 100.0 35.0 41.8 13.0 10.2 1970 100. 0 15.4 42.8 18.6 23.2 1980 100.0 6.8 40.7 19.0 33.5 THE OCCUPIED DWELLINGS BY THE SOCIAL STRATUM OF THE HOUSEHOLD HEAD At the 1. January 1980 57 percent of the occupied dwellings belonged to working class household heads, 18 percent belonged to cooperative peasant household heads. Professional and routine nonmanual households used 22 percent of the occupied dwellings selfemployed used 3 percent. The size of the dwellings shows differences by classes. Although the differences lessened, the conditions of the professionals and routine nonmanuals are still the most favourable, 35 percent of their dwellings have three-or-more-rooms. There is no considerable difference in the distribution by the number of rooms between working class and cooperative peasant households, however, the proportion of one-room dwelling is somewhat higher among the latter, i.e. 31 percent. The occupancy density is most favourable for professional and routine nonmanual households, the number of occupants per 100 rooms is 130. The density for cooperative peasant households is somewhat higher than the national average (153), the density is most unfavourable in the working class households' dwellings (164). 144