In this study the author presents a
part of the results from the project
»Problems of cooperativism and cooperation
in Slovenia«. In this he uses
the statistical data rahter than the
empirical results. He analyses the following:
global changes in population
structure of SR Slovenia, changes in
structure of agricultural households,
changes in the size of farms, sources
and structure of income in agricultural
households, as well as the structure
of consumption in agricultural and part-
-time households.
The author has established that in the
villages of SR Slovenia a process of
dissolving of the agricultural population
is talcing place. As the number of pure
agricultural households is decreasing,
the number of »proletarian« households
is increasing. The intermediate
stratum of part-time farmes — part-
-tirne workers is very numerous. Urbanization
is not due to stronger concentration
of population in towns, but
to the fact that villages are becoming
urbanized. The rural population is, namely,
leaving agriculture as a profession,
and is taking jobs in non-agricu\u27Itural
activities, remainig, however, to
live mostly in the village. Therefore,
the Slovenian village of today is no
more a synonym for a rural settlement.
Out of the total of 515 thousands of
households in SR Slovenia only 12 percent
are agricultural, 14 percent are
part-time agricultural and 74 percent
are non-agricultural. Agricultural households
are rapidly changing into part-
-time ones, in order to finally become
non-agricultural.
The number of active members in
agricultural households stagnates, so
that today there are mostly elder people.
In mixed households women are those, who mostly work on the farm
and in the barnyard. Agricultural households,
without regard to the existing
unfavourable structure of workers, live
today much better than before, due
to the specialization in agricultural production
and placing on market of surplus-
goods. The money, earned in this
way, is being invested Into agricultural
expanded reproduction and furnishing
of farms and only after this, into housing
construction and savings. The
part-time agricultural households (whose
financial consumption is larger than
in agricultural ones) invest also mostly
into furnishing of farms, although
less than agricultural households. However,
mixed households invest more
in the increase of housing standard
and in furnishing of households than
agricultural ones do, and their installments
as well as savings are higher.
Shortly, part-time agricultural households
in Slovenia live today considerably
better than pure agricultural households
