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 |
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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 |
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Civil servants | 1,372 |
1,378 |
85.6 |
85.6 |
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White-collar workers | 4,686 |
3,764 |
66.5 |
68.2 |
|||
Blue-collar workers | 3,550 |
3,048 |
57.5 |
61.4 |
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Unemployed | 226 |
144 |
18.1 |
15.4 |
|||
Nonemployed | 3,051 |
2,584 |
28.1 |
25.9 |
Source: Hertel 1997, 57