Magyarország nemzetiségeinek és a szomszédos államok magyarságának statisztikája /1910–1990/ Az 1992. szeptember 2–5. között Budapesten megrendezett Nemzetiségi Statisztikai Konferencia előadásai (1994)

IV. FÜGGELÉK - Angol nyelvű összefoglaló

On September 4 a recommendation relating to a nationality census, based on uniform methodology, was discussed, and a resolution was passed to this effect. Werner Haug, President of the Population Commission of the Council of Europe, participated in the sesssion. The subject in the second section was population statistics relating to Hungarians living in the neighbouring countries, while in the third section the social and demographic characteristics of nationalities living in Hungary were discussed. Chaired by László Sebők, researcher at the Central Europian Research Institute, the first session of the second section discussed the number, migration, vitai statistics, assimilation of Hungarians living in Roumania /Transylvania/ , and analized the reliability of the data. The subject was presented at the session by Vasile Ghetau, General Director of the Census Directorate of Roumania. Zoltán Dávid, retired Director of the Archives of the Central Statistical Office was invited to contribute to the discussion. Besides, Jenő Váralljai Csocsán, /Professor at the Oxford University/, as well as József Dézsi researcher, contributed to the debate. The latter acted in the absence of Károly Vécsei, invited researcher from Marosvásárhely /Tirgu Mures/. László Pillich, Representative in the Parlament of Roumania, tried to access the number of Hungarians living in Roumania, on the basis of votes for the Democratic Federation of Hungarians in Roumania, received by the Federation on the occassion of the 1990 parliamentary elections. Chaired by László Szarka, researcher of the Institute for Historical Science of the Hungárián Academy of Sciences, the second session of the section treated the number, composition and régiónál settlement of Hungarians in Slovenia and Slovakia, for the period between 1910 and 1990. Gyula Popély /Bratislava/, researcher, gave an account of the situation in Slovakia, pointing out the assimilation process of the persecuted Hungarians, a consequence of the minority status and fate. According to 1990 nationality data 566 741 Hungarians were living in Czechoslovakia, or 10.7 % of the population Data relating to mother tongue were not published. The estimated number of people speaking Hungárián was 621 500. /In 1910 896 000 Hungarians had been registered, or 60.6% of the population./ Aleksander Milenkovií, researcher of the Statistical Office of Slovenia, delivered a lecture on the Hungarians living in Slovenia. Dezső Dányi, retired Director of the Library of the Central Statistical Office and Lajos Pollák /Bratislava/, retired Chief Inspector had been invited to contribute to the debate. Chaired by Zoltán Dávid, retired Director of the Archives of the Central Statistical Office, the third session of the section dealt with the demographic problems of Hungarians living in the Voivodeship and in the Sub-Carpathian region. Károly Mirnics, /Novi Sad/, Senior Adviser, delivered a lecture on the decrease in the number of Hungarians,a result of the war threats and other causes. György Dupka, writer and editor /Ungvár/, submitted a detailed account of Hungarians living in the SubCarpathian region. According to Károly Mirnics the concept of nation covers only nations which form and build the Yugoslav Federation, while the nationalities /Hungarians, Turks, Roumanians, Italians etc./ are excluded therefrom. In 1921, 371 000 persons of Hungárián mother tongue lived there, while the figure for 1931 was 377 000, for 1961 442 500 /23.8%/. Since 1964 masses of Hungarians worked abroad, in consequence of the strong assimilation efforts. Due to this fact and to forced emigration and immigration the ratio of Hungarians in the Voivodeship was 21.7% /423 800/, while in 1991 it decreased to mere 16.9% /340 900/. One of the means of assimilation process had been the concept of Yugoslav nation, developed during the Titoist era, which promoted the integration process in the Serb society, the lecturer said. Invited contributions were: S. András Benedek, researcher of the National Liurary for foreign languages, and Miklós T. Popovics researcher of the Central Eastern Research Institute. The first session of the section, treating the question of nationalities in Hungary, was chaired by Dr. Isi >dn Hoóz, Head of Department of the Janus Pannonius University. In his lecture Árpád Mészáros, Head of Department of the Central Statistical Office, emphasized that the 1949 and subsequent censuses did not present accurate numbers of nationalities in Hungary because, as a consequence of the forced emigration, deportation and other reprisals in the post-World War II years, the persons involved considered it advisable to keep secret of their ethnic origins. However, there were no such problems in connection with nationality questions at the 1990 census. László Pálházy, Chief of Section of the Central Statistical office, one of the invited lecturers, treated the conceptual and methodological questions of the Hungárián censuses. József Kepecs, retired Deputy Head of Department of the Central Statistical Office, explored the researches relating to the nationality data of the censuses and the pertaining statistical publications. 351