STATISTICAL YEARBOOK OF THE JIHOČESKÝ REGION 2004 |
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7. INDUSTRY, ENERGY, CONSTRUCTION, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, INFORMATION SOCIETY ##### INDUSTRY The concept “industry” includes activities classified in the CZ-NACE classification under sections C – Mining and quarrying, D – Manufacturing and E – Electricity, gas and water supply, which are carried out by enterprise turning out industrial products of a similar economic purpose. The basic reporting unit of industrial statistics is the enterprise whose principal activity is classified to divisions 10 - 41 of the CZ-NACE in force since 1 January 1992. Data are obtained by the enterprise approach, i.e. for enterprises having their head office in the region concerned, including their establishments and plants situated in other regions. Due to a rather low degree of data relevance for the given region, the data are not further broken down into districts. A 100% survey was applied to the category of enterprises with 100 employees and more. Industrial activity sales include sales of own goods and services of industrial nature to external customers, valued at current prices (enterprise accounts Nos. 601 and 602. VAT, consumer tax and customs duty are not included in the sales. Employees in industry are given as actual persons. The average registered number of employees (in terms of actual persons) includes all permanent and temporary employees who have a contract of employment with the employer and receive wages from the employer for the work done. The average registered number of employees does not include e.g. women on maternity leave, temporary members of the armed forces (including persons on compulsory community service service, apprentices, students on practical training, persons working under contracts for work or of service, etc. The average gross monthly wage per employee in industry is based on the wage bill (gross) (without deductions imposed by law or agreed upon with the employee), to be paid in the given period. The wage bill does not include funds paid from the other personnel expenses account. To calculate the average gross wage, the wages paid are divided by the average number of employees and the number of months in the reference period. ##### ENERGY Information on consumption of fuels and energy in all industries of the national economy is obtained through an annual statistical questionnaire (EPS-01) completed by incorporated enterprises employing 20 people and over. Consumption of solid, liquid and gaseous fuels includes consumed individual fuels in terms of energy units - i.e. both production and non-production consumption, including consumption of inputs for generation of electricity and heat and for fuel upgrading; gas oils used to drive motors (formerly diesel oil) also include gas oils consumed for intra-enterprise transport. Consumption of electricity – also includes in-house consumption of the production of electricity. ##### CONSTRUCTION Construction comprises enterprises having their head offices in the area concerned, whose principal activity is construction (CZ-NACE 45) and which employ 20 employees and more. Construction work of contractors and sub-contractors (the value “S”) comprises total output resulting from construction activities and accepted sub-deliveries of work done by other organisations. It includes neither sub-delivery to other construction work contractors nor deliveries of work implemented between units of one organisation. They data are reported excluding value added tax. Basic construction output (construction work done by own employees) is the volume of work carried out by employees on the organization’s books, including productive work of apprentices. Data on housing construction refer to the entire housing construction in the area (including all types of extensions) that results in new dwellings attained by all forms of construction). Dwellings arising from changes in the purpose of use without any prior construction modifications are not included. The number of dwellings includes dwellings located in constructions for housing as well as elsewhere. Constructions for housing are multi-dwelling buildings in which the function of housing prevails, plus family houses. The dwelling refers to one or more rooms designed for living by the planning authority and can serve the purpose of living as independent dwelling units. The dwellings started are dwellings, whose construction was started in the reference period, as laid down in the builder’s diary, irrespective of whether they were completed or not. The dwellings completed are dwellings approved for use by the planning authority, the approval taking effect in the reference period. Dwellings under construction are dwellings whose construction was started already (in the reference year or earlier), but not finished by the end of the reference period. The habitable floor area is the floor area of habitable rooms. The habitable room is a room directly lit and ventilated, of at least 8 m2 in floor area, which can be directly or indirectly heated and which is designed for living all the year round. Data on building permits are processed from figures reported on questionnaires submitted by individual planning authorities. The building permit pursuant to Article 66 of Act No. 83/1998 Coll., which amends Act No. 50/1976 Coll., on Planning and Construction Order (Construction Act), lays down binding conditions for the implementation and use of the construction. Estimated value of constructions comprises total costs (at current prices), including technology, spent on preparing and implementing the construction and on putting it into operation. Environment protection refers to construction activities aimed to control water pollution, dispose of or use waste, reclaim land, and reduce impact of physical factor on the environment. ##### REAL ESTATE PRICES Data on real estate prices are obtained from the Ministry of Finance of the CR, from real estate transfer tax returns, which must be filed by real estate owners (sellers) with respective financial offices after the registered contract of purchase is taken over from the land registration office. The establishment of the price information database at financial offices was started by processing tax return data in 1998 pursuant to Decree No. 279/1997 Coll. The database covers transactions in the whole real estate market and is based on real (reported) prices. ##### RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, INFORMATION SOCIETY The concept ‘research and development’ in the CR is defined by Act No. 130/2002 Coll., on the Support to Research and Development from Public Funds and on Amendments to Certain Acts. For the purpose of the Act, research and development is defined by system. Development (experimental) – is systematic creative work drawing on existing knowledge gained from research and/or practical experience, which is directed to producing new materials, products or devices, installing new processes, systems and services, or improving substantially those already produced or installed, including acquisition and verification of prototypes, pilot plants or demonstrational plants. R&D employees are research workers directly engaged in R&D, as well as auxiliary workers, technicians, administrators and other persons working at R&D workplaces of the reporting units. They also include employees in charge of providing direct services for R&D activities. Since 2001, the number of contracts for work and contracts of service signed in the area of R&D has been separately measured. Registered number of employees as of 31 December in terms of actual workers (headcount) refers to the number of persons active, fully or in part, in R&D activities (human resources in research and development). Internal expenditure on R&D (R&D expenditure) – all internal R&D expenditure spent within a reporting unit or an economic sector irrespective of the source of financing. Expenditure made outside the reporting unit, but supporting internal R&D (e.g. purchases of deliveries for R&D), is included. The internal R&D expenditure consists of: non-investment R&D expenditure acquisition of intangible and tangible fixed assets for R&D Information society is a term used in connection with (i) the introduction, development and dissemination of new information and communication technologies in particular (computer, Internet, etc.) that make it possible to quickly transmit information (data, sound or audiovisual form) to various areas of everyday life, and (ii) the way they are used and the impact they have. The data of information and communication technologies in households and among individuals rely on the first periodic annual statistical survey on the use of information and communication technologies in households and among individuals – natural persons (ICT survey for short). The survey was conducted by the CZSO in the 4th quarter of 2003 and followed up its pilot survey carried out in a limited number of respondents in the 3rd quarter of 2002. The survey was implemented in the framework of the CZSO’s labour force sample survey (LFSS), in which it used separate questionnaires. This permitted to relate the ICT data to socio-demographic characteristics of persons in individual households. The ICT survey was a survey run on a sample of 8 500 individuals aged 15+ and used the face-to-face method. Its questionnaire comprised 53 ICT-related questions, of which 9 for households and 44 for individuals. The LFSS methodology was then employed to gross up the results to universe. Personal computer: desktop, notebook or handheld. Broadband: connection that offers higher data transfer speeds. Included in the survey were TV cable distribution system, ASDL, satellite and other wireless connection and hired data circuit (fixed line). Table 7-33 shows access of individuals to information and communication technologies of personal nature (mobile, portable computer) for private purposes and to PCs and Internet at home, broken down by administrative region.
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