Abstract

Thanks to the geographical features, farming has played an important role in the Hungarian
economy in the past and the same can be said even today. Due to the traditions, the specific
structure of Hungarian economy, agriculture, the specific characteristics of the Hungarian
society, the women’s role has developed in a special way. The many small farms (most of which
cannot even be considered farms in the economic sense) were in most cases managed by
women, at the same time, their production contributed significantly to the output of the
Hungarian Agriculture. The economic crisis, marked changes in the environment and society
caused significant changes in almost all countries. The purpose of the paper is to show what
changes have occurred over the past 2 decades (including period of EU accession too), how this
has affected women’s roles and the Hungarian Statistics. How statistics (the methodology of
statistics) could follow the changes, how a Hungarian statistician in Statistics see the processes.