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Social status

Publication at Faculty of Science |
2017

Abstract

This chapter shows important changes in indicators of social status where long-term monitoring is possible (albeit with certain limitations). The level of education to which the first two map sheets are dedicated is evaluated not only through the percentage of persons with elementary and tertiary education but also through the approximate number of years of school attendance.

This complex indicator considers all levels of education and provides an assessment of the number of years an average inhabitant of a district spent in education. Since education levels can only be traced since the 1960s, these data are supplemented by an indicator of the level of literacy, which was recorded under the First Republic.

The third map sheet evaluates employment status among the economically active population and it comprises on one hand the development of the indicator through comparable categories over the course of time and on the other hand particular features of classification that reflect the situation in a given period. The last map sheet, which looks at housing quality, is focused on the size of households, the size of apartments and their facilities.