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

B/ Main characteristics of households and families

33. Households by the number of household-members Number of household members Number(1000) In percentage of all households Number of household members 1960 1970 1980 1990 1960 1970 1980 1990 1 447 590 731 849 14.5 17. .5 19. .6 22, .3 2 808 869 1044 1132 26.2 25. .7 28, .1 29, .7 3 729 807 830 786 23.7 23. .9 22. .3 20, .6 4 572 638 724 720 18.6 18. .9 19, .5 18, .9 5 301 288 255 232 9.8 8, .5 6. .9 6 .1 6 131 116 89 65 4.2 3. .4 2, .4 1. .7 7-X 92 70 47 30 3.0 2. .1 1. .3 0. .8 The tendency of the proportion of the economically active persons decreasing and of the share of inactive earners increasing within the population produced changes alsó in the composition of households by earners. Since 1980 the number of households in which only inactive earners live (maybe with their dependent) has grown by 33 per cent, while the proportion of those with economically active persons has fallen by 8 per cent. These changes occured at a great decrease in the size of the population. The proportion of households with economically active persons decreased due - among others - to the fact that the households including only unemployed persons and representing 1 per cent of the totál number of households appeared from such households. (In the households including alsó unemployed persons alsó inactive earners and/or dependents may live beside the unemployed). Besides, it should be mentioned that in a part of the households there is no economically active person because the economically active person is temporarily far away from his/her family because of his/her employment and lives generally at a workers' hostel or in sub-tenancy. Because of the changes, the share of households without an economically active person grew from 24 per cent to 32 per cent, while the proportion of households consisting only of dependents did not change (1.5 per cent). The decline in the proportion of households with economically active persons is, however, not a new process, it could be observed already before, in the 1980s. E.g. in 1970, the proportion of such households was still 81 per cent as against 76 per cent in 1980 and 68 per cent at present. One, two and three economically active persons live in 30, a further 30 and in 7 per cent of the households, respectively. The proportion of households with an inactive earner but without economically active persons or without unemployed is alsó 30 per cent. In the past years, the number of households with two, three and four economically active persons feli by 12, 14 and 30 per cent, respectively. At the same time, the number of households consisting only of inactive earners and, respectively, of households only with dependents increased by one third and by 6,5 per cent. This tendency, however, is not the continuation of the changes occurred in the 1970s, since at that time the number of households with two economically active persons had increased by 11 per cent and that of the households with three economically active persons had scarcely changed. Among the causes of the worsening indicatiors the processes exerting a negative influence on the age-structure of the population as well as the great fali in the size of the population should be mentioned in the first place. The change in the composition of the households by earners is well illustrated alsó the fact, that in the past decade the number of active earners per 100 households decreased by 17 persons (from 133 to 116). It is worth mentioning that in the two decades preceding the last, the extent of the decline had been much smaller, by only 10 persons. The changes are even more visible in the joint number of inactive earners and dependents per 100 active earners living in priváté households: while in the 1980s, the value of this indicator grew by 18 persons (from 109 to 127), between 1970 and 1980, the respective increase was only by 3 persons. 31