DETERMINANTS OF HOUSEHOLD AND REGIONAL RURAL DEVELOPMENT

The first part of this article, regards to some socio-demographic determinants of households. They represent substantial indicators of the overall condition of a community. Status and trends of socio-demographic characteristics of households in Serbia in recent decades was the result of numerous factors. General decline in population -- depopulation, migration to the city, crumbling of properties, decrease of family and marriage importance, marriage in later years, changes in structure of the households in terms of division on agricultural, non-agricultural, mixed, etc are just a few of the causes that determine the current state and movement of socio-demographic characteristics of households in Serbia. In the previous period, trends of uneven and unbalanced rural development are present. The differences in the rural development of the region and the country are obvious. It is therefore necessary to reduce of differences in the level of development in which a special role is played by the household.