1996. ÉVI MIKROCENZUS A népesség és a lakások jellemzői (1996)

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from the labour markét, resulting in the significant decline in the economically active population. — Changes in the ratio of the active population to the inactive population have, since the 1980s have indicated the increasing burden on the active segment of the population: The number of inactive persons per 100 active persons has increased considerably, from 111 to 129 between 1980 and 1990. The process has gained in speed and the indicator has increased to 193 in the next 6 years. — The composition of the active population has changed in the transition process; the proportion of independent, self employed persons has increased significantly, from 3 per cent in 1980 to 15 per cent in 1996. — The structural adjustment in the economy is reflected by the sudden increase of workers in the tertiary sector among all active earners: from 9 per cent in 1990 to 15 per cent in 1996. — The number of households has increased slightly until 1990, this was followed by a slight decrease. The number of priváté households was 3 millión 869 thousand at the time of the survey, in April 1996. The number of persons living in priváté households was 9 millión 995 thousand. — More than a quarter of all priváté households are one person households, i. e. more than one millión people are living alone. Their housing conditions are, on the average, worse than the housing conditions of multi-person households. — Of all families, 85 per cent are families of couples, 15 per cent are single parent families. The number of children aged under 15 who live in single parent families is 257 thousand. Among families of couples, the proportion of consensual unions has increased to 7 per cent. — The construction of new housing has declined since the mid-1980s. The slow increase in the number of new housing units and the population decline resulted in the decrease in number of inhabitants per housing units. — On the whole, two room housing units are the most characteristics. The proportion of single room housing units is higher in the capital than in other towns and in villages, whereas the proportion of housing units with three or more rooms is highest in villages. — In the course of the privatisation of housing units owned by the local governments, 467 thousand housing units got priváté ownership since 1990. The proportion of local government owned housing units decreased to 6 per cent. — Around 60 per cent of housing units can be considered as adequately equipped with principal amenities, or equipped with comfortable individual heating. The proportion of inadequately equipped housing units is still about one fifth, inhabited by about 2 millión persons. The volume alsó contains the methodological description of the sampling and the inflation of the sample data, as well as a note on the reliability and confidence limits of the data. The definitions and classifications used in the analyses are alsó provided. The Act regulating the topics and the compulsory participation in the microcensus and the questionnaires are published in the appendix. 22