Demografie, Review for Population Research - No. 3/2023

Demografie, 65(3): 103–119
https://doi.org/10.54694/dem.0320

Abstract
Demographic ageing brings with it many challenges for contemporary society. One of them includes an increase in the demand for social services. This article evaluates the current capacity of residential social services for seniors in the administrative districts of municipalities with extended powers (AD MEP) in the Vysočina Region and an outline of their possible future development. Based on a population projection we compiled and the current capacity of residential social services, we calculated model estimates of the capacity of these facilities in the administrative districts of the Vysočina Region. We found that in order to maintain the current availability of accommodation services, capacity needs to be increased on average by more than one-third by 2050. The highest relative increase in capacity should occur in AD MEP Velké Meziříčí and AD MEP Jihlava, because these are the districts that are expected to see the biggest increase in the number of senior citizens.

Keywords
demographic ageing; residential social services for seniors; Vysočina Region; projection

Demografie, 65(3): 120–135
https://doi.org/10.54694/dem.0323

Abstract
The article presents the administrative data sources used in the 2021 population census in Czechia and describes the main steps in data processing leading from raw input data to the final census population. Special attention is paid to signs-of-life analysis, which deals with the issue of overcoverage in the population register. The article ties in with a previous article (published in 2022) that discussed the use of registers in European population censuses and explained the process of combining data sources in the previous 2011 Czech population census.

Keywords
population and housing census, Czechia, administrative data sources, data quality, signs-of-life analysis

Demografie, 65(3): 138–151
https://doi.org/10.54694/dem.0324

Abstract
This article examines the changes in the religious structure of the population of Slovakia from a geographic perspective between 2001 and 2021 with a focus on the five largest churches in Slovakia (Roman Catholic Church, Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Augsburg Confession, Greek Catholic Church, Reformed Christian Church, and Orthodox Church) and the population with no religious belief. The 2011–2021 period was significant for the secularisation of society, which was reflected in an increase in the size of the population with no religious belief. The article’s chief goal is to identify the regions (at the level of individual districts or parts of districts) that saw the most significant rise or decline of individual churches.

Keywords
religious structure, spatial changes, secularisation