摘要：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 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 t 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
