1990 POPULATION CENSUS Detailed data based on a 2 per cent representative sample (1992)

V. EXPLANATION OF CONCEPTS

their working place was a hospitál or out-patient clinic, they were included in the respective division on the basis of the latter.) b/ The own-account workers and those of the liberal professions were assigned on the basis of their individual occupation (e.g. an own-account bricklayer and self-employed merchant were included in construction and trade respectively, and after that in the corresponding group). c/ Unpaid helping family members except those helping on auxiliary farm plots — were included in the same group as the person whom they helped. Unpaid helping family members working on the auxiliary farm plots belong to the major group and alsó to the group "Agricultural production". In Table 2.2.2 the assignment of agricultural family helpers within the major group "agricultural production" is the following: — helping family members of workers of cooperative farms belong to those working in agricultural co-operatives, — unpaid helping family members on auxiliary farm plots as well as those of own-account agricultural workers belong to "other agriculture". d/ The industrial assignment of persons who cannot be placed in the Standard Industrial Classification System is the following: — agricultural day labourers belong to the major group "Agricultural services"; — employees of foreign employers working in Hungary, Hungarians working abroad, occasional workers, day labourers (except agricultural day labourers) are all included in the major division "Community, administrative and other services" or, in the case of a breakdown by divisions, in the category of "Other workers not classifiable by industry". In the tables containing the composition by major divisions of the national economy, the 1970 and 1980 data of the major divisions "Other material activity" and "Personal and economic services" were distributed on the basis of statistical estimates starting from the current labour data supply. STATUS IN EMPLOYftNT Active earners are grouped by status in employment on the basis of their legally determined relationship to their employer and to the capital equipment, respectively, in the following way: — employees — members of co-operatives — own-account workers, those of liberal professions — unpaid helping family members. Employees are those who are in labour relations and receive wages, salaries for their work. Members of co-operatives are in membership relation to the employing co-operative and this relationship obliges them to work or — if there is no such obligation — they work in the co-operative on the basis of a separate labour contract. Own-account workers, persons of liberal professions are individual farmers, own-account artisans, retail traders, hauliers etc. working on the basis of a licence as well the non-manual workers pursuing an independent gainful occupation without being in labour relation, membership relation with a cooperative or in outworker's legal relation. Here belong alsó members of the economic working collectives established by priváté persons - lawyers

1 co-operatives, co-operatives of driving instructors, creative communities, managers of units operating on contractual basis as well as the tenants of industrial, trading etc. units. Unpaid helping family menbers are those who, without labour relationship, co-operative membership relations and without a licence for operation, 260