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Land availability and joint family households in Civil Slavonia according to the Cameral Census from 1736

According to the cameral census of civil slavonia from 1736, around one third of all households were joint family households. such an outcome raises the question why some slavonians lived in joint family households while others did not. the answer includes different factors: cultural, demographic and economic. this paper presents an analysis of economic factors, especially of land availability, important for the agrarian society. In the paper villages with extra high or low percentage of joint family households were ex- tracted for a better understanding of the connection between land availability and house- hold structure. the analysis of household structure, average number of heavy livestock and land per household provides an answer about the importance of land availability for the size and structure of the household. In this sense one must differentiate civil slavonia and Slavonian Military Border. In Military Border military officials recognized joint fam- ily household as an exceptional type of household that could not only provide maximum of soldiers, but also take care for war invalids, widows and orphans. Military officials created efficient system that provided all the military families with sufficient land. On the contrary, in civil slavonia feudal landowners did not have any particular interest in sup- porting joint family households among the peasants.

slavonia; 18th century; joint family household; land availability; cameral census

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