Statistická ročenka Ústeckého kraje
Methodology
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10. EDUCATION, CULTURE AND SPORTS, HEALTH AND SOCIAL SECURITY
EDUCATION The data on education have been taken from the database of the Institute for Information on Education – a departmental workplace for education statistics under the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR. Tables 10-1. to 10-3. include all schools classified in the register of schools and school facilities regardless the founder. Tables 10-4. to 10-6. do not include data on the 2 state universities founded by the Ministry of Defence of the CR and Ministry of Interior of the CR. Teachers (including directors and their deputies, educational consultants and teachers of professional training) are given as full-time equivalent employees. ISCED – the International Standard Classification of Education was compiled and issued by UNESCO as early as 1976 to be used as “a tool appropriate for collecting processing and disseminating education statistics in individual countries and on an international scale” The last revision of the classification was made in 1997. The classification uses 7 levels of education (0 to 6), which can be broken further to A to C. Nursery schools provide pre-primary education. Data include both “common” nursery schools and also schools that are founded for children with special educational needs. Basic schools, including schools for pupils with special educational needs, provide basic education, which is compulsory for all able children. Secondary schools, including schools for pupils with special educational needs, are meant for obtaining secondary education. These schools teach in fields of secondary general schools (grammar schools), secondary technical schools, secondary vocational schools, vocational schools and practical schools. Data on follow-up courses are given separately regardless the school where it is taught (due to changes in methodology, this cannot be distinguished since the school year 2006/2007). Another type of schools are conservatories, including conservatories for pupils with health handicaps, where pupils can obtain either secondary education with maturita examination or conservatoire higher professional education. Higher professional education can students obtain higher professional schools. Data on all the above-mentioned types of schools are given for school year and refer to 30 September of the respective year. Universities offer bachelor, master, follow-up master and doctoral programmes. Although numbers of students studying simultaneously at more than one university or faculty have been increasing, the numbers of students refer to numbers of actual persons (each student is counted only once). Two private universities sent incomplete data for the academic year 2007/2008 and one private university did not send any data. The total number may differ from the sums for individual universities, forms of education or programme types. Data on public and private universities are taken from the Union Information from Students’ Registers (Sdružené informace matrik studentů – SIMS). Numbers of students refer to 31 December 2007 and numbers of graduates are given for calendar year (as at 26 January 2008). Breakdown by form of study
CULTURE AND SPORTS Data on cultural establishments and sports facilities (Tables 10-7. to 10-9.) are measured in the individual administrative regions and districts and kept in the database of statistics on municipalities and towns. Data on historical monuments with cultural use (Table 10-10.) are taken over from the National Information and Consulting Centre for Culture established by the Ministry of Culture of the CR. The shown data refer to all facilities, irrespective of their founder. The cinema is a cultural establishment, whose principal activity is to show films for public at least once a week. A cinema with multiple film-showing halls is taken for one cinema. The indicator theatre is also related to one building. Theatre buildings and halls used as tour stages only are not counted in. Data on public libraries include data on libraries of all types, i.e., district and local people’s libraries along with other libraries employing professionals. Amphitheatres are multi-purpose outdoor facilities intended to give theatrical and film performances, entertainment shows and other cultural and social events in the summer time. Open-air cinemas are included in the indicator, too. Lidos are facilities established by river courses and reservoirs, which have an operator. Where there are more lidos established in one area, each of them is considered a separate facility. Historical monuments with a cultural use include castles, palaces, monasteries, ruins and other monuments that are made accessible to visitors for admission fees and do not come under the maintenance of a museum or a gallery. HEALTH Selected data on health (the numbers of physicians and paramedical workers with professional qualifications and the number of health establishments, bed-strength and inpatients) are taken over from the Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the Czech Republic (IHIS). The data cover both state and non-state sector. There has been a change in the definition of the category paramedical workers in connection with the passing of Act No. 95/2004 Sb. and 96/2004 Sb. The previously observed category of professional health personnel with secondary education (IHIS) was replaced by the category of health-personnel qualified for carrying out health profession with no professional supervision after obtaining professional qualification (shortly paramedical workers with professional qualifications) Bed-strength in hospitals and its use, which are derived from the six-month departmental questionnaire L(MZ)1-02, contains selected indicators on the use of bed-strength, on physicians and paramedical workers with professional qualifications and on workload of the personnel, as well as information on the movement of hospitalised patients. Data on incapacity for work due to disease or injury are processed by the CZSO. The reporting duty is imposed on all businesses, which fulfil duties concerning sickness insurance independently, and district social security administrations, which submit aggregates for entities that do not settle sickness insurance claims on their own. Average percentage of incapacity for work is calculated as the ratio of the number of calendar days of incapacity for work due to disease or injury to the average number of the sickness insured, multiplied by the number of calendar days. SOCIAL SECURITY The social security scheme includes pension insurance, sickness insurance, state social support benefits, and social care. The pension insurance scheme takes care of citizens in the case of old age, invalidity or loss of breadwinner. Provided within this programme as of 1 January 1996 (Act No. 155/1995 Sb., on Social Security) are old-age, disability (full and partial), widows’, widowers’, and orphans’ pensions. According to the Act, wives’ pensions, pensions for long-term service, social pensions, pensions granted before 1 January 1957 are provided in as either invalidity or old-age pensions. The sickness insurance system of benefits comprises four benefits, namely sickness benefit, financial support for care of a family member, maternity benefit, and pregnancy and maternity compensation benefit. Sickness insurance of the self-employed is voluntary. Self-employed persons are entitled to two of the benefits – the sickness benefit and the maternity benefit. Job applicants are not sickness insured, but they are paid the maternity benefit from sickness insurance. The tables relating to sickness and pension insurance do not include data concerning the armed services of the Ministry of Defence of the CR, the Ministry of the Interior of the CR and the Ministry of Justice of the CR. The figures on state social support benefits paid include income-tested benefits such as child benefit, social benefit, housing benefit, transport benefit (payments stopped on 30 June 2004) and school teaching aids allowance (payments effective from 1 June 2006 to 31 December 2007) and non-income-tested benefits such as parental benefit, providing-for benefit (payments stopped on 31 December 2004), foster care benefits and grants, child care benefit for a child in a facility for children in need of immediate assistance (payments effective from 1 October 2005 to 31 May 2006), birth grant and funeral grant. The heating and rental benefits, constructed like the income-tested benefits, were paid between 1 July 1997 and 30 June 2000 and between 1 July 1997 and 31 December 2000, respectively. In June 2004, an ad hoc extraordinary child benefit of CZK 2 000 was paid pursuant to Act No. 237/1994 Sb., in connection with changes in VAT. The social care scheme is used by the government to help citizens whose life requirements are not sufficiently covered by income from work, pension security or health insurance benefits or other income, and citizens who need help due to bad health or old age. The social care scheme includes in particular care for people with severe disabilities. The scheme provides benefits in cash or kind and cultural and recreational care (especially contributions to acquisition of special aids, making a dwelling barrier-free, purchase, complete overhaul and special adjustment to a car, running costs of a car, individual transport, payment for the use of a barrier-free dwelling and garage, contributions to blind people, interest-free loans to people with disabilities, etc.). The Czech Statistical Service uses outputs from the information systems run by the Czech Social Security Administration (information on sickness insurance benefits, pension recipients and average amount of pensions) and by the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs of the CR (information on social service: establishments, users, and expenditures, homes for seniors, state social support benefits, old-age pension recipients by pension amount, handicapped person card holders). The adoption of the Social Services Act, as amended, brought about changes to the social service establishments classification. Hence, certain data for 2007 are not comparable with the data from previous years. The figures on the number and capacity of social care establishments are based on the actual deployment of the establishments and detached workplaces thereof. * * * Other regional information on education, culture and sports, health and social security is available in the following CZSO publications:
More detailed information on education is available in specialized publications of the Institute for Information on Education, e.g. „Statistická ročenka školství 2007/2008“. More detailed information on the health service in the Czech Republic is available in the book “Czech Health Statistics Yearbook” (Czech-English), regional health statistics yearbooks, and monothematic publications of the ”Health Statistics” series the Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the CR (IHIS CR) puts out for the Czech Republic and Czech regions every year. Other information is published on the CZSO web pages: |
