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Old Aged Agricultural Holdings
Svetozar Livada
Sažetak
crOCeSS °£,aging of rural, particularly of agricultural population in Yugo-
• * ; g' in Slavonia, East Serbia and within some ethnical groups in other
w n i a a nr!Pm S' C* ”biJela kuga<< venia and Croatia ,particularly in Istna, Dalmatia and Lik a( »thwehriet ei sp ae sltoinlegn ctrea«d)i.t iIonn Slolaf8fry°
n a° f.oreigI\conutries, while in Kosovo and Metohia and mountainous
parts ot Macedonia, and Bosnia and Hercegovina there is a deeprooted tradition
or seasonal »pečalba« (temporary employment far away from home).
„ Uowever, for the process of aging of agricultural population the most decisive
l rh• coasetluence? brought about by the industrialization of the country. First
of all this has caused the large and mass spatial and socio-professional mobilitv
younger generation from the coutryside, then the compulsory 8-year schooling
and mass education for other occupations have stimulated the transfer from
agriculture to other branches of economy. num
. £n tbe! second part, the author — on the basis of the special demographic
criteria — has selected 103 communities with 4.500 settlements where demographic
Ih?^aH°rS Sf OW-tha- the Process of aging of rural population is in full swing E g
the index of aging m many of these communities surpasses 0.5, in the commune
Mimcevo it is even 1.2236. In some of these settlements every the third or the
life1«? these tillages °f 6°' WhiCh refiects a lot on economic and cultural
o,it £“ 7S? thl? T?art ?^aut£?r interprets some results of the interview carried
out m 7 2 6 aged households. These results point out the pecularity of the aged
agricultural household in the social structure of the rural environment.
., e7i!nkri,S^ ^r,e *be resuits concerned with reasons of an origination of
the aged households: 1) in more than 57.0% of the interviewed Luseholds des
3r?nani0S 1 P¥rated,or
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liv£ °n jhejr own, 2) in 17.9% there were no descendants
A q J o / V descendants had died or were killed during the last world war
4) m 9.6/o descendants were under the maturity age or in schools 5) in 4 2% of
tie interviewed households descendants were not able to work
Consecluently, this confirms the author’s thesis that the reason for a mass
of aged agricultural households are numerous, but the socio-professional
a™L pat3al mobility are the most decisive factors of the process of aging of rural
particularly of agricultural population. S S
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Hrčak ID:
118530
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Datum izdavanja:
27.12.1966.
Posjeta: 800 *