Czech Statistical Office

Demographic Statistics Unit

Czech Statistical Office
Na padesátém 81
100 82 Praha 10
CZECHIA

Data and metadata are transmitted to Eurostat by the Member States in the framework of the Unified Demographic Data Collection which is in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 and Regulation (EU) No 1260/2013 and their implementing regulations.

This Euro SDMX Metadata Structure is used for the purpose of quality reporting. The definition of the quality concepts and guidelines are described in the European Statistical System Handbook for Quality Reports.

The regional breakdown of the Member States in the regional demographic tables is done under the most recent NUTS classification. There are agreements between Eurostat and Candidate countries as well as between Eurostat and EFTA countries, for which statistical regions have been coded in a way that resembles NUTS.

For more information on the versions in force, please see: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/nuts/.

Not applicable.

Number of persons.

Population, live births and deaths data are available at national and regional level of geographical detail.

Population – since 1820

Live births – since 1806

Deaths – since 1785

Immigrants – since 2008 by usual residence

Emigrants - since 2008 by usual residence

Acquisitions of citizenship – since 1999

Legally induced abortions – since 1958

Late foetal deaths – since 1919; although data  were not disseminated by pregnancy duration, the definition of stillbirth included a criterion 28 weeks of pregnancy duration with exception 1949-1952; since 1967 dissemination of stillbirth data by pregnancy duration

Infant deaths  – since 1819

Marriages – since 1785

Divorces – since 1919

Not applicable.

Data is collected at unit (person) level.

The reference date for population data is the end of the reference period (midnight of 31 December).
The reference period for vital, dual events data and migration is the calendar year (calendar month in tables B01 and D01) in which the events occurred.

The State Statistical Service Act § 4,12 https://www.czso.cz/csu/czso/full_wording_of_act_no_89_1995_coll_on_the_state_statistical_service.

The Policy for the Integration of Foreigners, including statistical data collection, has been adopted by Czech Government Resolution No. 1266 of 11 December 2000 and is updated every year (Czech Government Resolution No. 26 of January 9, 2017).

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The State Statistical Service Act  - §16, §17, §18 https://www.czso.cz/csu/czso/full_wording_of_act_no_89_1995_coll_on_the_state_statistical_service.

The Personal Data Protection Act http://ec.europa.eu/justice/policies/privacy/docs/implementation/czech_republic_act_101_en.pdf.

Provision of aggregated data.

News Releases:

The 73rd day following the reference quarter period except for annual data when the date of the first release is scheduled on the 80th day.

Data sets:

Population of the Czech Republic - Quarterly preliminary data on population and population change from the beginning of the year: the 73rd day following the reference quarter(s) period, except of annual data when the date of the first release is scheduled on the 80th day.

Revision schedule:

The data are preliminary when first released. The data become final after the processing of the intercensal population balance, i.e. since the last working day in April of the following year (Y+1).

Population of the Czech Republic – monthly time series: the 73rd day following the reference quarter period except of annual data when the date of the first release is scheduled on the 80th day.

Population of the Czech Republic – annual time series: 21 March.

Population of Municipalities of the Czech Republic: 23 May.

Age Structure of the Population: 23 May.

Life Tables: the last working day in May.

Demographic Yearbook of the Regions of the Czech Republic: 15 August.

Demographic Yearbook of Towns of the Czech Republic: 31 August.

Demographic Yearbook of the Districts of the Czech Republic: 16 October.

Demographic Yearbook of the Czech Republic: the first working day in October.

Demographic Yearbook of Administrative District of Municipalities with Extended Powers: the last working day in September.

Demographic Yearbook of Administrative Districts of Municipalities with Authorized Local Authority: the last working day in October.

Czech Demographic Handbook: 23 November.

Foreigners in the Czech Republic: 12 December.

News Releases - https://www.czso.cz/csu/czso/population-change.

Other publications - https://www.czso.cz/csu/czso/population-publication.

Free access on the CZSO website: https://www.czso.cz/csu/czso/population-publication, https://www.czso.cz/csu/cizinci/publication-foreigners-in-the-cr

or contact Information Services Department: infoservis@czso.cz.

Quarterly - preliminary main figures on stocks, vital events and migration.

Yearly – definitive data and population structures, analytic indicators.

Population change - year 2022 | CZSO

All demographic publications are accessible on the CZSO website: https://www.czso.cz/csu/czso/population-publication.

Demographic statistics public database:https://vdb.czso.cz/vdbvo2/faces/en/index.jsf.

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According to Article 4 (2) of the Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 205/2014, each year Member States shall provide the Commission (Eurostat) with data at national and regional level as described in Annex II and related standard reference metadata (In the metadata structure definition defined for the Euro SDMX Metadata Structure) for the reference year within 12 months of the end of the reference year. According to Article 3 (2) of the Commission Regulation (EU) No 862/2007, Statistics on international migration, usually resident population and acquisition of citizenship shall be supplied to the Commission (Eurostat) within 12 months of the end of the reference year.

Not applicable.

Fully comparable.

In contrast to the definition used by national accounts, the population figures produced by demographic statistics include foreign residents with a stay 90-364 days and residents with Czech citizenship and permanent residence in the CR independently on the length of stay.

The residence permits statistics is based on the registered residence, international migration data are based on the usual residence derived from data on registered residence.

National changes in classifications are usually implemented at the beginning of the reference year.

Population:

- Before 2001, data referred only to the resident population of the Czech Republic (irrespective of their citizenship). Since 2001, following the 2001 Population and Housing Census, the data have also newly included foreigners with a visa for stay over 90 days and foreigners with asylum status

- Since 1 May 2004, all data have referred to citizens of the Czech Republic and foreigners with permanent residence in the Czech Republic, third-country nationals with temporary residence in the territory of the Czech Republic based on a long-term visa (over 90 days) or a permanent residence permit, nationals of the EU Member States, Norway, Switzerland, Iceland, Liechtenstein and their family members with notified temporary residence in the territory of the Czech Republic and foreigners with valid asylum status in the Czech Republic. 

- Since 2022, the population has also included persons granted temporary protection in the Czech Republic with usual residence in the Czech Republic

Births:

- In the period from 1 January 1965 to 29 February 1988, internationally recommended definitions of a child were valid in the Czech Republic, according to which: a birth of a live foetus (a live-born foetus) is a complete expulsion or extraction of a foetus from its mother (regardless the length of the pregnancy), provided that the foetus after the delivery is breathing or shows other signs of life such as beating of the heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord or movement of voluntary muscles, although the umbilical cord has not been cut or the placenta has not been delivered.

- In the period from 1 March 1988 to 31 March 2012 a live birth was defined by the Decree of the Ministry of Health No 11/1988 Sb on mandatory notifications of terminated pregnancies, death of a child, and death of the mother, as the complete expulsion or extraction of a child from its mother provided that the child shows at least one of the signs of life and its birth weight is:

a) 500 g or more, or

b) lower than 500 g, if it survives the first 24 hours after birth.

The signs of life were: breathing or beating of the heart or pulsation of the umbilical cord, or movement of voluntary muscles, although the umbilical cord has not been cut or the placenta has not been delivered.

- Since 1 April 2012: The national legislation does not contain direct definition of a stillbirth. Existing legal regulation, the Act No 372/2011 Sb, on Health Services, as amended, defines only a foetus after abortion (see above). On that base, the definitions of stillbirth (and live birth) is stated in the guidelines for filling in the “Death certificate (Report on examination of the deceased person)”, for the needs of filling in of the Death certificate. The stillbirth is defined there as the foetus, which after the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother shows none of the signs of life and at the same time its birth weight is 500 g and over and provided that the weight cannot be measured, if the pregnancy lasted 22 weeks and over, and provided that the length of the pregnancy cannot be measured, if the crown-heel length is 25 cm and over.

Administrative data sources.

The monthly demographic data, which are published quarterly, are preliminary when first released. The data become final after the processing of the intercensal population balance, i.e. (according to the common release calendar) since the last working day in April of the following year (Y+1).

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Demographic statistics: data are collected/processed on a monthly basis.

Immigrants, emigrants and acquisitions of citizenship for the purpose of Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 – data are collected on a yearly basis.

Demographic data collection follows Act No 89/1995 Sb, on the State Statistical Service. For the provision of such information the state institutions, or health service facilities, are obliged to provide individual data on personal identification number, place of permanent residence and usual residence in case of foreigner or foreigner with valid asylum status, citizenship, birth characteristics of newly born child, marital status, marriage/divorce order, number of children in divorced marriages, cause of marriage breakdown, cause of death, age of the deceased infant, and place and time of the surveyed event to the Czech Statistical Office.

Demographic statistics: the data are checked for completeness (monthly) and logical inconsistencies (interactively during data transmission into databases or monthly).

Live births: the sum of (i) live births of mothers with permanent residence (Czech nationals and foreigners) or appropriate kind of temporary residence (foreigners; incl. temporary protection) in the territory of the Czech Republic registered by Registry Offices in the reference year, and (ii) timely registered in the CR live births of Czech nationals with permanent residence in the CR taken place outside the CR.

Deaths: the sum of (i) deceased persons with permanent residence (Czech nationals and foreigners) or the appropriate kind of temporary residence (foreigners; incl. temporary protection) in the territory of the Czech Republic registered by Registry Offices in the reference year and (ii) registered in the CR deaths of Czech nationals with permanent residence in the CR taken place outside the CR.

Immigrants (P00-P02, P08): the sum of registered persons, who have permitted appropriate kind of temporary residence (incl. temporary protection) or permanent residence in the territory of the Czech Republic, and who had a previous residence in another country.

Emigrants (P00-P02, P08): the sum of registered persons, who changed residence to another country, and who had a previous appropriate kind of temporary residence (incl. temporary protection) or permanent residence in the CR.

Population balance: population as of 31 December = population as of 1 January + births - deaths + immigrants - emigrants.

Legally induced abortions: the sum of legally induced abortions of women with permanent or the appropriate kind of temporary residence in the territory of the CR registered by medical facilities in the territory of the CR in the reference year.

Late foetal deaths: the sum of stillborn children with gestation 28 weeks or more of mothers with permanent or the appropriate kind of temporary residence (incl. temporary protection) in the territory of the Czech Republic registered by Registry Offices in the reference year, in case of Czech citizens with permanent residence in the CR irrespective of the place of birth was outside the CR.

Marriages: the sum of marriages of engaged couples with permanent or the appropriate kind of temporary residence (incl. temporary protection) in the territory of the Czech Republic registered by Registry Offices in the reference year, in case of Czech nationals with permanent residence in the CR irrespective of the place of marriage was outside the CR.

Divorces: the sum of dissolved marriages of spouses with permanent or the appropriate kind of temporary residence (incl. temporary protection) in the territory of the Czech Republic registered by the Ministry of Justice in the territory of the Czech Republic in the reference year.

Demographic statistics: population figures for the year, in which was held population census, are backwards recalculated (as of 1 January) according to census results. On Eurostat request (and only for its purposes), the backward balance based on 2011 Census results was calculated for the whole intercensal period (up to 2001).

Concerning Regulation (EC) No 862/2007, answers from the previous year questionnaire are applicable; improvements are described in 15.2. Comparability - over time.