1996. ÉVI MIKROCENZUS Az egyszülős családok adatai (1997)

AZ EGYSZÜLŐS CSALÁDOK TÁRSADALMI-DEMOGRÁFIAI JELLEMZŐI ÉS LAKÁSVISZONYAI

A more considerable improvement has occurred regarding the supply of network gas. Since 1990 the share of single parent families occupying dwellings provided with network gas has increased by 15 percentage points which has led to 60 percent proportion in the spring 1996. This represents a share only by 1 percent under that observed in the case of couple-type families. Since network gas usually replaces the use of cylinder gas, the improvement in supply of gas in totál is relatively modest: only by 4 percentage points with respect to the 86 percent share in 1990. In the case of couple-type families this growth was 2 percentage points only, resulting in a share of 92 percent by April 1996. At the beginning of the decade 22 percent of single parent families occupied dwellings with district heating, which remained almost unchanged till today. The respective shares differ among the two types of single parent families. Among families with a lone mother it is 22 percent, while among those with a father it is only 16. Latter share is similar to that of couples with children. More important changes occurred in the last six years in the shares of single parent families living in dwellings with other kinds of central heating which is mainly due to the increasig number of systems heating one dwelling or detached family house. Since 1990 the share of single parent families occupying dwellings of this type has increased by 8 percentage points. However, the 29 percent proportion of theirs is still by 17 percentage points less than that of couples with children. An integrated indicator of the housing conditions of families is the level of comforts. By this feature - like by the detailed housing characteristics - the housing conditions of single parent families has improved since 1990, similarly to other types of family. Despite the hard economic situation, the decrease of public housebuilding and subsidies, their dwellings became more modern and comfortable. In 1990, 41 percent of single parent families lived in dwellings supplied with all amenities (full comfort), their share is now 48 percent. The share of those living in dwellings with principal amenities is 31 percent, almost unchanged. The remaining one fifth live in dwellings with part or no comforts (of which 17 percent in emergency or other accommodations). Except the category of those living in dwellings with principal amenities, the housing conditions of single parent families in all other comfort categories are worse than those of couple-type families. The more marked difference is found between their respective proportion in dwellings with all amenities. The more favourable conditions of families living in larger towns are the result of the large numbers of block dwellings - mainly with panel-walling - built in the seventies and eighties supplied with the equipment - even if in a low level of technics and quality - to provide comfort. In rural areas and smaller towns this equipment is still missing or only partly available in a large number of dwellings. 20