Balázs György (szerk.): The abolition of serfdom and its impact on rural culture, Guide to the Exhibition Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Revolution and War if Independence of 1848-49 (Budapest-Szentendre, Museum of Hungarian Agriculture-Hungarian Open-Air Museum, 1998.)

As a result of the abolition of the serfdom in 1848 1 ,429,779 families became plot-owners; 656,251 families became owners of 10,254,100 holds <14.560.822 acres) of land; 2,203,307families were exempted from 36,779,076 days of unpaid socage a year; 2.203.307 families were relieved of paying 1.054,033 forints of hearth-tax a year; 656,251 families were no longer forced to pay tithes, i.e. to give up twenty per cent of their produce each year; 582,262 heads of peasant families were given the vote; 328,102 peasant families were given the right to send one male member to the national guard; 1,538,096 peasant families became equal in rank with the nobles before the law.