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Incomes, Expenses and Consumption of Agricultural Households in SR Croatia from 1963 till 1973
Josip Štahan
Sažetak
In this study data from surveys, carried
out by the Federal Institute for
Statistics in 1963, 1968 and 1973 upon
a sample, concerning incomes, expenses
and consumption of households,
have used. The author has restricted
his analysis only to agricultural households
in SR Croatia, i.e. only to those
households which possess an agricultural
estate and where all members of
the household work as farmers. The
following subject have been treated:
changes in demographic and economic
characteristics of agricultural households,
relationship between available
and applied means, structure of personal
consumption and consumption of
food products, furnishing of agricultural
households with durable articles of
consumption, as well as housing conditions.
The analysis has shown, that in the
period from 1963 till 1973 the average
size of an agricultural household in
SR Croatia decreased from 3.7 to 3.1
members. The number of agricultural
households with lower income decreased
also, while the number of households
with higher income increased.
The total of available means per an
agricultural household increased 6.26
times, and per one member of such
a household 7.52 times. So, in 1973 one
agricultural household disposed of
27,880 dinars on the average, while
one member of such a household had
at his disposal 9,001 dinars. However,
in comparison with the average for all
households in the Republic (including
also the non-agricultural households),
a farmer had still at his disposal 33
percent less means than a member of
an average household. This means,
that the difference between the quantity
of means disposed of by a farmer I'n comparison with a non-farmer was
still enormous — naturally the farmer
was damaged.
In the sturcture of the total of available
means of agricultural households
the share of financial means was growing
/from 42.7 percent in 1963 to 55.2
percent in 1973/, and the value of natural
consumption was decreasing
/from 57.2 percent to 44.5 percent/.
In the total of financial means the share
of incomes from abroad was growing
/from 7.4 percent to 26.9 percent/,
while the net value of the income
from the proper farm production was
decreasing /from 59.6 percent to 39.6
percent/. The structure of consumption
showed a decrease in the share of personal
consumption /from 95.4 percent
to 89.6 percent/, and in the share of food
/from 61.4 percent to 54.9 percent/.
However, the share of savings /from
1.8 percent to 3.8 percent/, the share
of expenses for furnishing of households
and modernizaton of farms as
well as for the improvement of housing
conditions /from 2.8 percent to
6.6 percent/ were growing.
In spite of all changes for the better,
the stage of personal consumption reached
in agricultural households is
still significantly below the level of
personal consumption in non-agricultural
households, and the quality of housing
standard of farmers is lower than
of non-farmers.
Ključne riječi
Hrčak ID:
119049
URI
Datum izdavanja:
15.6.1977.
Posjeta: 853 *