Focus on Women and Men
1. Population | Contents |
The figures showing the size and structure of population are derived from decennial population censuses and from additional information on population balances and changes. The latter is obtained from processing statistical reports on marriages, divorces, births, deaths and migration, which are provided by registries, district courts, stay registration offices, and aliens’ registration office. All of the state indicators reflect final results of the Population and Housing Census 2001. The figures on abortions are supplied to the Czech Statistical Office by the Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the CR. Data on numbers of foreigners staying in the Czech Republic for more than 1 year are taken over from the Alien and Border Police of the Czech Republic.
Births
The definition of a live birth is stipulated in Decree 11/1988 of the Ministry of Health of the CR: a live-born child is a child who gives a sign of life (respiration, heartbeat, umbilicus pulsation, active movement of muscles) and whose birth weight is 500 g or more, or whose birth is below 500 g if it survives 24 hours after delivery. A stillborn child is a child not showing any signs of life, whose birth weight is 1 000 g or more.
Reproduction rates: by age of female
Fertility rate by age: the number of live-born children per 1 000 females of a given age.
Total fertility rate: the number of live-born children per 1 female throughout her whole childbearing period provided that the fertility rate remains the same as in the given year.
Gross reproduction rate: the number of girls that would be live-delivered to 1 female throughout her childbearing period (from 15 to completed 49 years of age), provided that the fertility rate level remains the same in individual (normally single-year, in the table five-year) age groups as in a given year.
Net reproduction rate: the number of girls that would be live-delivered to 1 female throughout her childbearing period (like in the gross reproduction rate above) and would live to see their mother's age in the years they were born. In order to maintain a stationary population into the future, the net population rate must be kept at 1.000.
Abortion rate by age: the number of total abortions (i.e., of induced plus spontaneous abortions) per 1 000 females of a given age.
Total abortion rate: the number of abortions per 1 female throughout her childbearing period provided that the abortion rate remains the same as in a given year.
Pregnancies by age: the number of all pregnancies - i.e. the sum of live births and stillbirths and all abortions (induced and spontaneous) per 1 000 females of a given age.
Total pregnancy rate: the number of pregnancies per 1 female, provided that her total fertility rate and her total abortion rate remain the same throughout her entire childbearing period as in a given year.
Foreigners in the CR
A foreigner in the Czech Republic is a person who does not have the Czech citizenship. The table contains foreigners who stay in the CR for more than 1 year on the basis of visas for stay over 90 days, who have permanent residency permit and were granted an asylum. Only for foreigners until their 1 year of age the condition of at least 1 year stay in the CR as a minimum (differentiation of a long-term and short-term stay in the CR according to the UN Recommendations on external migration statistics) was not fulfilled and those persons are not included in total sums. Data contained in the table result from the materials of the Alien and Border Police, which keeps the register of foreigners in the CR.