NUMERI PRAGENSES
Methodology
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.
This chapter also shows:
Key data on the financial performance of the Capital City of Prague, which are taken over from the document “ Report of the Fulfilment of Capital City of Prague’s Budget and of the Account of Capital City of Prague’s Financial Performance Results for 2004”.
Money income and expenditure of households in 2002 to 2004.
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 13-10. Table 13-11. shows data for the capital city and organizations founded by the capital city and Table 13-12 includes data referring to the financial performance of the city sections.
Table 13-13 includes data for the whole city broken down by budget classification chapter, whereas Table 13-14 splits the data by the chapters into the capital city proper and the city sections in total.
Table 13-15 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
The data include Household Budget Survey (HBS) results for housekeeping households. The households were selected by non-probability quota sampling technique. The social group of household, number of dependent children and net per capita income were chosen as the sampling characteristics of the basic sample.
The composition of the reporting sample – i.e. the occurrences of the individual groups of households according to the last two sampling attributes are determined from results of the sample survey on money incomes of households (Microcensus) and general data characteristic of the economic structure and social conditions of the country and its regions.
With regard to the structure of the Prague reporting sample, only data on the group of employees, where the head of household has a contract of employment (manual workers and other employees except for farmers), are shown. Also included in this category are partners in limited liability companies (or silent partners of limited partnerships as the case may be), who are employed in their own businesses on the basis of a contract of employment and receive wages.
Net household income defined for the sake of quota sampling is calculated as gross income less the total of income taxes and compulsory health and social insurance contributions. Loans, credits, and withdrawals of savings are not included. The average per-capita income is then calculated by simply dividing the total net income by the number of persons in the given household.
Classification of incomes and expenditures
Gross money incomes do not include withdrawn savings , received loans, or 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.
Contents of money expenditures are analogous with those of incomes. 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.
Since 1999 money expenditures have been classified according to the CZ-COICOP (Classification of Individual Consumption by Purpose). This three-level, four-digit classification scheme consists of 12 divisions, 54 groups and 145 sub-groups, and 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 Coll., on the State Statistical Service.
The objective of the CZ-COICOP is to classify all kinds of individual consumption (money expenditures on goods and services) by their purpose.
Individual (final) consumption now excludes expenditures on building or reconstruction of houses and dwellings and the costs associated to households’ own farming production. These expenditures do not appear in the CZ-COICOP at all, and are therefore 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 2003 results are thus fully comparable only with the results from the 1999 publication
