NUMERI PRAGENSES 2007 - Statistická ročenka hl. m. Prahy
Methodology
This chapter includes comparison of selected towns of the Czech Republic. A town is a municipality, which was granted status of a chartered town based on the Act on Municipalities. From the CR, the biggest towns were selected for the comparison. The basic criterion for the selection was population. Another criterion was position among self-governing units (regional towns) and also inclusion of towns in the CZ NUTS category.
Indicators to be compared - as for towns of the CR - were selected according to data availability. Most of the published data are outputs from statistical surveys of the CZSO.
Other data sources are: Czech Hydrometeorological Institute, Czech Office for Surveying, Mapping and Cadastre, Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Road Data Bank located in Ostrava, Institute for Information on Education, Institute of Health Information and Statistics, Czech Social Security Administration, Police Headquarters of the CR, Ministry of the Interior, General Directorate of the Czech Fire and Rescue Service.
In the next part, you can find selected data on neighbouring capital cities, excluding Germany. Berlin was not included because it is hard to compare this city with the other capital cities of our neighbours due to its size and position in Germany. This year, we decided to compare the basic available data and indicators of Prague, Bratislava, Budapest, Warszawa and Wien. For this international comparison, data was provided by the workplaces of national statistical offices of Slovakia, Hungary, Poland and Austria, which are specialized on the statistics of particular capital cities.
Analytical indicators that are not used in previous chapters:
Index of dependency I - number of children aged 0 - 14 per 100 persons aged 15 - 64
Index of dependency II - number of persons aged 65+ per 100 persons aged 15 - 64
Economic burden index - number of children aged 0 - 14 and number of persons aged 65+ per 100 persons aged 15 – 64
Divorce index – number of divorces per 100 marriages in given period
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Other regional information on territorial comparisons is available in the following CZSO publications:
1303-07 Districts of the Czech Republic 2006
Other information is published on the CZSO web pages:
http://vdb.czso.cz/vdb/en/index.jsp
www.czso.cz/eng/redakce.nsf/i/regions_towns_
