PřF:Z0081 Spatial information - Course Information

Z0081 Spatial social and economic information

Extent and Intensity

2/1/0. 3 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: graded credit.

Teacher(s)

doc. RNDr. Václav Toušek, CSc. (lecturer)
Mgr. Tomáš Krejčí, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

RNDr. Vladimír Herber, CSc.
Department of Geography – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: doc. RNDr. Václav Toušek, CSc.

Timetable

Wed 17:00–18:50 Z2

• Timetable of Seminar Groups:

Z0081/01: Wed 12:00–12:50 Z1, T. Krejčí
Z0081/02: Wed 19:00–19:50 Z1, T. Krejčí

Prerequisites

!( Z0153 Methods, human geography )
Basic lecture from social geography in the 1st year.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

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Course objectives

The course follows the courses on Statistical methods and data processing and Methods of geographical research. Students will be familiarized with past and current spatial social-economic information, which can be used in regional geographical research. Emphasis will be put on the questions of data comparability, their spatial detail and accessibility, objectivity and representativeness. In the seminar the students will learn the techniques of spatial social economic information processing, multicriterial analysis included. They will also learn techniques of selective surveys.

Syllabus

• 1. Social economic information and their use in regional geographical research. 2. Current legislation: Statistics Act and Individual data protection Act 3. Czech statistical office and other institutions in the Czech Republic, which collect and process spatial information, Eurostat, UN, publications and their accessibility 4. Demographic statistics: population and its structure - census, continuous statistics, projections 5. Population movements - natural, migration, commuting to work, schools, services and recreation 6. Employment and unemployment of the population - selective research on labour force, data from Employement service administration 7. Houses and households, household construction, second homes 8. Information on industrial production, indexes and their computation 9. Information on agricultural production indexes and their computation 10. Information on service sectoer - emphasis will be put on the data on commerce, education, health service and their processing 11. Transport information and their processing 12. Techniques of selective research - interview, inquiry, questionnaire survey, respondent selection, wording of question, representativeness, interpretation 13. Layout of questionnaires according to objectives: population, administration, entrepreneurs

Literature

• Heřmanová, E.: Vybrané vícerozměrné statistické metody v geografii, SPN, Praha, 1991
• Ivanička, K.: Úvod do ekonomicko- geografického výskumu. SNTL, Bratislava, 1971
• ISARD, Walter. Methods of interregional and regional analysis. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998, xxiii, 490. ISBN 1-85972-410-8. info
• BRÁZDIL, Rudolf. Statistické metody v geografii : cvičení. 3. vyd. Brno: Vydavatelství Masarykovy univerzity, 1995, 177 s. ISBN 8021012609. info

Assessment methods (in Czech)

Přednášky, seminář, zkouška.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

Study Materials
The course is taught annually.

Listed among pre-requisites of other courses

• Z0158 Field work on economic geography
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