according to the 1990 census, şanlıurfa province contained 148,521 households, and the average household size was 6.74 persons. 71% of household heads described their occupation as farming. in 1992, şanlıurfa had the highest concentration of land ownership in turkey, with a landless rate of 48%. while 5% of the families in the province owned 65% of the land, the vast majority (70%) owned only 10%.