Methodology - Public expenditure on education

Data on public expenditure on education have been taken from a yearbook of the Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports. A specialised information portal of the Ministry of Finance called MONITOR, which includes information from the system of the Treasury (Integrated Information System of the Treasury) and from the Central System of Accounting Information of the Czech Republic, is the data source. Data are reported for calendar years; it is the total expenditure on education and education services – Parts 31 and 32 of the kind-of-activity budget classification after consolidation on the level of local government budgets and the state budget at current prices. 

The indicator called providing food to pupils includes expenditure on providing food to pupils of nursery schools, basic, secondary, and higher professional schools. 

School facilities for institutional and protective education (care) are usually for children and the youth aged 3–18 years to whom they provide protection against unfavourable influence of non-functional family environment or another socially unfavourable environment. They include a youth detention centre, a children’s home, a children’s home with a school, and a young offenders’ institution. 

Expenditure on universities includes all services, including operation of halls of residence, university canteens, and expenditure on research and development. 

Expenditure on the state administration includes expenditure on the Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports, the Czech School Inspectorate, and other organisational units of the state.  

Other expenditure includes expenditure on financial and statistical services, houses of children and youth, guidance and counselling facilities, physical education and sport, culture, health, environmental protection and ecology, and the like.