Fónai, Mihály: The dimensions of Hungarian

survey

Conference and Book Launch

9 – 10 December 2013, Budapest

Dimensions – households• The first dimension of the

research and the questionnaire directed to the „households”.

• The first question block was about the composition of the households

• The gender and age of the people living in households.

• The financial, income situation of the households

• The structure of the expenditures2

Dimensions – location, transport and migration• The next dimension of the research

and the questionnaire is location, transport and migration

• The components of the satisfaction and identification with the settlement

• The crisis of the earlier form of the public transport

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Dimensions – the supply systems

• The supply systems primarily mean the family and neighbouring networks

• Hungarian society has an „underdeveloped bourgeois status” („underbourgeoised”, there are not enough middle class citizens in Hungary

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Dimensions - ICT

• In the research of the Finnish partner the usage of the informational network had an important role

• The usage of ICT is significantly different from the Finnish ones.

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Dimensions - social and health services

• This dimension is suitable for measuring how much the different services are known, not only the frequency of its usage and the satisfaction with it have been measured

• The provision of the public goods

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Dimensions - operation of the associations

• The next dimension of the questionnaire meant the operation of the associations, which is one of the important elements of the research of the Finnish partner

• The middle class is missing in Hungary - civil society is weak

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Dimensions - recent life situation and the ethnic

affiliation • The closing block of the

questionnaire deals with the recent life situation and the ethnic affiliation of the interviewees

• The classification question „who is considered to be Roma”

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The principles of sample selection

• In the research performed in the Northern Great Plain Region sample consisting of 1000 „households” was planned

• The multi-stage sample taking process• For the sample selection two times as

many additional addresses were used as the number of the people was who were involved into the sample

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The distribution of the sample according to the types of the

settlement

Frequency

(person )

Percentage

Country centres 264 26.8

Other towns 392 39.8

Villages 328 33.4

Total 985 100.0

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The distribution of the sample according to age

groupsFrequency

(person)

Percentage

– 29 year 201 20.5

30 – 39 year 193 19.6

40 – 49 year 163 16.6

50 – 59 year 173 17.6

60 + 255 25.9

Total 985 100.0

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Thank You for Your Attention!

Fónai Mihályfonai.mihaly@law.unideb.hu