NUMERI PRAGENSES
Methodology
This chapter newly includes comparison of selected towns of the Czech Republic and some capital cities of its neighbouring countries. 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. For international comparison, capital cities of the neighbouring countries were selected, which are comparable to Prague as for their size. The city of Berlin was not included, because it differs with its size and position within the country.
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.
For international comparison, some data from the Database of East-Central European Capitals (ECED) have been used. The project is managed by the Budapest and Pest County Directorate of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (HCSO), a regional body of the HCSO, which ensures collection of data for individual participating towns as well as methodological management of the project. The database has been supplied with data for individual years since 1995.
The most update data, which were available as at the date of issue of this yearbook in the selected set, were data for the year 2003.
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
