| Based on constitutional Act No. 347/1997 Coll., on the Establishment of Higher Territorial Self-Governing Units, of 3 December 1997, the Czech Republic was split into 14 regions (NUTS 3) on 1 January 2000. According to this Act, the Resolution of the Czech Republic's Government No. 707/1998, in accordance with Article 19 (1) of Act No. 89/1995 Coll., on the State Statistical Service, and subsequent to the agreement with the Statistical Office of the European Communities (Eurostat), the Czech Statistical Office put into use the Classification of Territorial Statistical Units for Statistics (CZ-NUTS) which supersedes the Nomenclature of Regions and Districts used before. The classification NUTS (La Nomenclature des Unités Territoriales Statistiques) constitutes a fundamental systematic tool for the needs of statistics, analyses and provision of statistical information to the European Union. It is used for statistical monitoring and for analyses of social and economic conditions in regions (NUTS 3), as well as for the preparation, implementation and evaluation of regional policies. Since 1998, the classification has been used in EU legislation at the level NUTS 2, in particular for the tasks tied with drawing resources out of the so-called Structural Funds of the EU. The classification has six levels (NUTS 0 to 5) which stand for size groups and are characterized by population and area. NUTS 0 ... refers to the state of the Czech Republic;
NUTS 1 ... refers to the territory of the Czech Republic;
NUTS 2 ... refers to areas, i.e. to 8 groupings of regions (NUTS 3);
NUTS 3 ... refers to regions, i.e. to 14 higher territorial self-governing units;
NUTS 4 ... refers to districts, i.e. to 91 districts, including 15 districts of Prague;
NUTS 5 ... refers to municipalities, i.e. to 6 249 municipalities. As the average size of regions (NUTS 3) is 2.5 times and 4 times smaller in population and area in comparison with the NUTS 2 average for the EU, respectively, it was necessary to establish 'groupings of regions' at the level of NUTS 2, referred to as 'areas', so that data for the areas in the CR would be comparable with those for areas at the same level in the EU. The population in these territorial units (NUTS 2) exceeds 1 million. Summary of 'areas' (NUTS 2) and 'regions' (NUTS 3)::
| NUTS 2 | NUTS 3 | | Praha | Hl. m. Praha Region (PHA) | | Střední Čechy | Středočeský Region (STČ) | | Jihozápad | Jihočeský Region (JHČ)
Plzeňský Region (PLK) | | Severozápad | Karlovarský Region (KVK)
Ústecký Region (ULK) | | Severovýchod | Liberecký Region (LBK)
Královéhradecký Region (HKK)
Pardubický Region (PAK) | | Jihovýchod | Vysočina Region (VYS)
Jihomoravský Region (JHM) | | Střední Morava | Olomoucký Region (OLK)
Zlínský Region (ZLK) | | Moravskoslezsko | Moravskoslezský Region (MSK) |
In 2000 the first stage of the reform of the territorial public administration took place along with the rise of fourteen higher territorial self-governing units (administrative regions). The end of the year saw the implementation of the second stage of the reform. The aim of the second reform stage was to terminate the operation of the district offices as at 31December 2002. A major part of the powers of the districts was delegated to 205 municipalities with extended competence and these started their activities on 1 January 2003. The municipalities were defined by Act No. 314/2002 Coll., on Setting Municipalities with Commissioned Local Authority and on Setting Municipalities with Extended Competence. The Ministry of the Interior of the CR established administrative districts of the municipalities with extended competence by its Decree No. 388/2002 Coll. Notes on tables All conversions to NUTS 2 and NUTS 3 levels are governed by the organizational, methodological and territorial structure of the year of survey given. The conversion into the new territorial structure is based on data for districts and applies to 1999. The figures for 2000 and 2001 are based on the new territorial set-up already. The released figures are produced from CZSO surveys, unless another source is given. Data sources: - Unemployment: Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs of the CR;
- Land: Czech Office for Surveying, Mapping and Cadastre;
- Education: Institute for Information on Education (grammar schools, secondary technical schools, secondary vocational schools; excluding special schools and schools established with special education institutions)
- Health: Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the CR;
- Social security: Czech Social Security Administration
'old-age pension, total' = full old-age pension + early old-age pension (by two years) + early old-age pension (by three years) + old-age pension (under Act No. 155/1995 Coll., articles 29 (a), 30, 31 and 29 (b), respectively).
Included only are pension recipients in the CR (pensions to non-residents and 'other pensions' are excluded - 'Other pensions' are paid by transfer, not in cash, and 90% of them are paid to homes for children and social care institutions
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