Abstract
The thesis brings a comprehensive look at the family and household and focuses more on the methodological aspects of its structure and development evaluation.The first part of the thesis is rather a methodological work and introduces a detailed household methodology of one of the most important data source on families and households. Over the last half-century, the population and housing census has allowed a monitoring of household formation in the Czech Republic.
Despite the efforts, new technologies, data collection and processing methods have required a change of the household concept in the last census. Since then, the time series have not been fully comparable.
For the first time, household type derivation was based on automated process only, using a predefined algorithm. This algorithm, drafted by the author of the thesis, is also introduced in a separate chapter.
The thesis also includes analytical chapters discussing the long-term development of the family and household structure development in both the national and international perspective. Moreover, introduced in the thesis, is a new forecast of selected housekeeping households until 2040.
Using the modified headship rate method, the ongoing increase of the overall number of one-person households and couples without children can be expected as a consequence of the process of demographic ageing and changing life style in the Czech Republic. The core part of the thesis deals with both methodological and analytical aspects of the data assessment.
In this chapter, the household structure census data is discussed in terms of data quality. Data collection methods and its quality were found out to be the most significant factors affecting the household structure data.
To a lesser extent, the methodological concepts used also affect the household structure data. However, demographic behaviour, especially the population aging still has the main impact on the household and family structure transformation.