Evaluation of the regions of the Czech Republic on the basis of demographic characteristics in the year 2006

Demographic evolution in the Czech Republic is not spatially homogeneous but displays regional differences. In the set of 14 regions of the Czech Republic, numerical characteristics showing level, variability, skewness and kurtosis for 30 demographic indicators from the year 2006 are calculated and evaluated. Frequency counts for some of these have been shown using histograms. On the basis of factor analysis, five representative indicators were chosen and assigned weights, with the ranks of regions determined by normalized values. The best position was obtained by the City of Prague and Středočeský Region, with last position occupied by the Zlín Region.

Keywords: demographic analysis, regions of the Czech Republic, numeric characteristics of indicators, ranking of regions

Grants and funding:

This work is a partial output of the research project no. MSM 6215648904 "The Czech economy in the integration and globalization processes and the development of the agrarian and the service sectors in the new conditions of the European integrated market" carried out at the Faculty of Business and Economics of Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry in Brno, topic group 5 "Social economic connections of sustainable multifunctional agriculture and the agrarian and regional politics measures" and its partial task "The analysis of the demographic development in the CR, the consequences of delay in contrast to the developed Western European countries, the country environment manifestations of the basic demographic characteristics generally and according to the specific conditions of CR regions".