1996. ÉVI MIKROCENZUS Az egyszemélyes háztartások fő jellemzői (1998)

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INTRODUCTION For severaJ decades, between two consecutive decennial population censuses, microcensuses have been carried out by the Hungárián Central Statistical Office in order to survey changes having occurred ensuing to the former census. In the period following the 1990 census, such a data collection took place in April, 1996 on a sample covering 2 percent of the housing stock and of the population. Special importance was attached to the 1996 microcensus owing to the change which having been accomplished in the nineties. Only a sample survey comprising all strata of the population and allowing for a conveniently high degree of reliability within relatively narrow confídence intervals, can establish in a complex way the impacts of these changes on the population, the scope and trends of changes. The results of the microcensus are being published by the Hungárián Central Statistical Office in a publication series. The volume "Population and housing characteristics" containing the most important data came out in early 1997. Somé of the publications containing most detailed data of the survey appeared recently. The publications containing detailed data deal with specifíc topics which expectedly arouse keen interest on behalf of institutions', experts' and researchers' part in the given domain. The present volume is part of this publication series. It gives a detailed picture on an in many respects disadvantaged fraction of the population amounting to more than a quarter of households and simultaneously one tenth of the population, namely on one-person households, i.e. lone persons. The analytical text, whenever possible, strives to follow the changes having occurred in the more than one and a half decade after the 1980 population census, making use of the results of the last two fiillscope censuses and offering a brief overview on the most recent changes. It presents a detailed analysis of the main demographic, educational and occupational characteristics and the housing conditions of lone persons, in comparison to the respective characteristics of the population on the one hand and of all households on the other. Besides a short presentation of retrospective (summary) data, the Tables chapter contains detailed cross-tabulations, too with data according to counties and population size groups of localities. The use of the volume is facilitated by a detailed explanation of concepts. 10