Table 2: Private households by occupational status of the reference person above the median, related to the median of all private households; former Federal Republic of Germany, income and consumption sample surveys 1988 and 1993

Occupational status Number of households Proportion of households
1988 1993 1988 1993
1,000 %
Total number of households
14,458
12,339
50.0
50.0
Total number of households related to the arithmetic mean
11,595
10,080
40.1
40.9
Farmers
163
274
63.9
83.8
Self-employed
1,409
1,147
80.8
86.4
Civil servants
1,372
1,378
85.6
85.6
White-collar workers
4,686
3,764
66.5
68.2
Blue-collar workers
3,550
3,048
57.5
61.4
Unemployed
226
144
18.1
15.4
Nonemployed
3,051
2,584
28.1
25.9

Source: Hertel 1997, 57