Statistical Yearbook of the Czech Republic 2010 has been just released

 


The new Statistical Yearbook of the Czech Republic 2010 has just emerged on shelves of bookshops and specialised bookstores. This numerical portrayal of the Country in the year 2009 presents a detailed statistical view not only of the Country economy yet also of other spheres of social life and events in the Czech Republic in total 527 tables, supplemented with accompanied explanatory texts. The Yearbook was developed in joint efforts of a twenty-two-member Editorial Board and four workers of the Statistical Yearbook Unit along with further 133 professionals not only of the Czech Statistical Office but also from other institutions as, for example, the Czech National Bank and respective ministries of the Czech Republic.

The Yearbook content has retained, considering comfort of its users, as much as possible stable resemblance, which, inter alia, assures also the maximum level of comparability of repeatedly published data in time series. Therefore, the Yearbook gives selected indices of national economy in a long-term time series and then continues with data on the environment, population, national accounts and labour market, including labour force, through respective sectors of national economy, education, culture, and health, to the international comparison and data on elections.

An important change is that almost all chapters, except for that of national accounts, use the new classification according to the Classification of Economic Activities (CZ-NACE) instead of the formerly used Industrial Classification of Economic Activities (OKEČ). Because new data cannot be compared to the formerly published data according to OKEČ, majority of tables give recalculated data in time series of various lengths of time, as possible.

In the Yearbook the readers can, of course, find hard macroeconomic data yet also a whole number of very interesting figures. Two examples, just to make some selection, are as follows. In 2009 the Czech Republic exported in total 861 thousand passenger cars, most to Germany, France, United Kingdom, Italy, Poland, and Belgium. Conversely, our Country imported 162 thousand passenger cars and countries of their origin ranked Germany, France, Spain, Japan, Belgium, and United Kingdom. The number of households having a fixed telephone had fallen to a half (from 55.2% to 27.6%) since 2005. On the contrary, availability of mobile phones had been increasing and in 2009 as much as 94.6% of households had a mobile phone.

Similarly as in already several previous years the Statistical Yearbook of the Czech Republic 2010 is published simultaneously as a printed book and in an electronic form on CD-ROM. The Statistical Yearbook is traditionally issued by the Czech Statistical Office in cooperation with the Scientia publishing house, which provides for its printing and distribution of the book as well. The Statistical Yearbook can be purchased or potentially ordered both in its book version and electronic one at the Information Services Department of the Czech Statistical Office, Na padesátém 81, 100 82 Praha 10, Czech Republic ( infoservis@czso.cz).


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Czech Statistical Office
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