NUMERI PRAGENSES 2009 - Statistická ročenka hl. m. Prahy
Methodology
| 14. CAPITAL CITY OF PRAGUE
According to Act No. 131/2000 Coll., of 13 April 2000, on the Capital City of Prague, Prague is the capital of the Czech Republic, region and municipality. In terms of delegated competence, it is an administrative district, too. It is broken down into city parts, whose positions and competence are stipulated by the above-mentioned Act, a special law, and the Statute approved by the Council of Representatives of the Capital City of Prague.
Generally binding Decree No. 55/2000 Coll., of the Capital City of Prague, by which the Statute of the Capital City of Prague is issued, splits the city into 57 city sections. City sections are administered by their councils headed by boards and mayors. Their decisions are carried out by offices of city sections. At the same time, the Statute commits with effect from 1 July 2001 carrying out of the delegated competences to 22 city sections and thus the number of administrative districts expands from 15 delegated by the Decree No. 38/1994 Coll., of the Capital City of Prague to the current total number of 22 (Prague 1 to Prague 22). This chapter includes data from the previous chapters broken down further into 57 city sections, governed by the same methodology. In the tables, city sections are ranked according to their belonging to the 22 administrative districts. In 2007, the change is taken into account, that from 1.11.2007 city section Prague-Čakovice belongs to city section Prague 18 that carries out public administration for it instead of Prague 19 in previous years. This chapter also shows: Key data on the financial performance of the Capital City of Prague for 2008, Money income and expenditure of households in 2006 to 2008. KEY DATA ON THE FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF THE CAPITAL CITY OF PRAGUE Total results of the financial performance of the Capital City of Prague are listed in Table 14-14. Table 14-15. shows data for the capital city and organizations founded by the capital city and Table 14-16. includes data referring to the financial performance of the city sections. Table 14-17. includes data for the whole city broken down by budget classification chapter, whereas Table 14-18. splits the data by the chapters into the capital city proper and the city sections in total. Table 14-19. gives an overview of the financial performance of all the individual 57 city sections. HOUSEHOLD INCOMES AND EXPENDITURES Description of the survey and sample construction Data on household incomes and expenditures were obtained from results of the selected Household Budget Survey. Unit of selection and the reporting unit is the household i.e. a group of persons living and running the household together. The selection of reporting households of the Household Budget Survey (HBS) is done by non-probability quota sampling technique. The social group of household (which was determined by the social affiliation of the person in the head of the households) and net per capita income were the basic sampling characteristics of the basic sample until 2005. The third basic sampling characteristic was the number of dependent children (in households with economically active persons) or the number of members and sex (in households of pensioners without economically active members). Since 2006 there have been methodical changes in the Household Budget Survey. The basic selection characteristic is the economic activity and the role of the persons in the head of the household. Households of economically active persons are classified by position in employment, possibly by education of the person in the head. Households with economically inactive person in the head are further divided, based on wheather one of the members of the household is economically active. For the most important groups of households other selection criterions are also used: net income per member of household and the number of dependent children (for households of employees or self-employed) or pension per member of the household and the number of members, possibly sex (for households of pensioners without economically active members). Selection characteristics were supplemented with the size group of the municipality, possibly type of the house. The group of respondents includes all types of households for e.g. until now not observed households of the unemployed, households of pensioners with economically active members or households whit no economically active persons. The way of observing expenditures on food and non-alcoholic drinks also changed in 2006, households enter expenditures for the most of the year in total amounts and only two months are entered in detail. . With regard to the structure of the Prague reporting sample, only data on the group of employees are shown. In the head of the household is a person in an employment or service relationship and has a contract of employment or agreement (contract for work, contract of services). Employees are also working members of producer cooperatives (including agricultural), partners in limited liability companies and silent partners of limited partnerships, working on the basis of an employment contract and getting a reward, which is an income from dependent activity. Households are further divided according to education of the person in the head to employees with education (without GCSE) and employees with higher education (secondary with GCSE, possibly higher or university education). Classification of incomes and expenditures Gross money incomes do not include withdrawn savings or, received loans, and credits. These items, which otherwise have their counterparts on the expenditure side, are listed separately as "balance items". Net money incomes are obtained from gross money incomes by subtracting income taxes and compulsory health and social insurance contributions. Gross money expenditures do not include deposits or repayments of loans and credits. Net money expenditures differ from their gross values by the total of paid income taxes and health and social insurance contributions. They are divided to the so-called consumption expenditures and expenditures not classified as consumption. For the classification of consumption expenditures the CZ-COICOP classification (“Classification of Individual Consumption by Purpose”) has been used since 1999 in the HBS. The classification is three-levelled, consists of 14 divisions, 58 groups and 157 classes. It was prepared as a Czech version of the international COICOP standard to allow international comparisons of statistical indicators. Its use is mandatory for all statistical surveys conducted within the framework of the Act No. 89/1995 Sb., on the State Statistical Service, as amended. The objective of the CZ-COICOP is to classify all kinds of individual consumption (money expenditures on goods and services) by their purpose of use. The first 12 groups of the classification are intended for the observation of household expenditures. The HBS partly adapted the classification of expenditures to the international standard specialised for the HBS, so that each CZ-COICOP class has one or more HBS items. The expenditures, which are not classified in the CZ-COICOP, such as capital expenditures on building, respectively reconstruction of a house or a flat, expenditures connected with the care for a utility garden and utility animals, were classified separately as non-consumption expenditures. The implementation of the CZ-COICOP classification brought about an increase in the number of divisions and groups as well as changes in contents of items. The 2006 results are thus fully comparable only with the results from the 1999 publication.
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Other regional information on region and districts is available in the following CZSO publications:
w-104003-09 Age Distribution of Prague )s Population 2008 Other information is published on the CZSO web pages: www.praha.czso.cz |
