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Fertility tables and application of the method in the analysis of regional differentiation of fertility in Spain
Ukolova, Elizaveta ; Šídlo, Luděk (advisor) ; Šťastná, Anna (referee)
The aim of the thesis is to construct period fertility tables according to Human Fertility Database methodology and different kinds of fertility indices, which are possible to derive from fertility table's functions. The method is then used when analysing regional differences in fertility behaviour among Spanish regions in 1981, 1991, 1999 and 2011. The study begins with a general overview of fertility trends in Spain. Then, the data part follows. Next, the methodology is discussed and some table's indices, which Human Fertility Database does not provide, are constructed. Following chapters focus on application of the method to real data. It was found out, that with the help of period fertility tables one can calculate not only the age and parity adjusted total fertility rate and the table mean age at birth, but also various transition probabilities between parity states and as well as other measures. All this could be done due to the possibility of deeper disaggregation of the table population. The main results obtained by applying the method brought several interesting findings. Most importantly, differences across regions in Spain have been disappearing over the years, but they still persist in some form, as regions with a higher fertility rate were concentrated in the southern part of the country in...
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Linguistic Analysis of Newspaper Headlines in Spanish
Šťastná, Anna ; Čermák, Petr (advisor) ; Krinková, Zuzana (referee)
This thesis focuses on describing characteristic linguistic features of newspaper headlines in Spanish. After introducing the area of study, the theoretical part explains key concepts such as journalism, news and opinion journalism, language and style of media and sums up differences between traditional and digital journalism. The third chapter is dedicated to the topic of newspaper headlines, the chapter presents their brief history, possible classifications and points out the importance of the visual form of newspapers. The crucial part deals with the issue of characteristic morphosyntactic, lexical and punctuation features of newspaper headlines. The fourth chapter describes the quality press El País, the digital version of this daily was used for the formation of corpus for the analysis of language material. The analysis derives from theoretical foundations and is the content of the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth chapter. Results of partial analyses are generalized in the conclusion of the thesis, which describes specifics of language used in newspaper headlines and determines main differences between headlining of articles in various sections of the newspaper.
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Regional differences in the population development of the USA, focusing on the 21st century
Naxera, Martin ; Šídlo, Luděk (advisor) ; Šťastná, Anna (referee)
Regional differences in the population development of the USA, focusing on the 21st century Abstract This paper examines the population development problematics of four Census Regions of the USA designated by the U.S. Census Bureau during the time period of 2000-2017. Using the standard demographic analytical methods of public access population estimates, public health and migration data, significant differences are found. Most significant differences are found in case of the migration between Census Regions. Additionally, the paper examines the effect of the Great Recession, which was peaking during the years 2007-2009, on the population development. Especially the fertility characteristics seem to be affected by this event. Keywords: population development, USA, regional differences, economic recession
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Impact of economic development on fertility in Czechia after 2000
Benešová, Valentýna ; Šťastná, Anna (advisor) ; Kocourková, Jiřina (referee)
Impact of economic development on fertility in Czechia after 2000 Abstract The aim of this thesis is to explore the development of fertility in Czechia at the level of regions and districts and to compare it with the development of economy after 2000. The first part of the thesis summarizes the knowledge of fertility development and possible economic and other influences that affect it. Subsequently the development of unemployment and the development of fertility were analyzed, just like their relations in the Czech Republic between 2002-2017. The thesis is focused on the regional differentiation of the selected indicators. Most of the analysis was made at the level of the NUTS 3 of the Czechia. Hereby it can be confirmed that the economic development in the Czech Republic was very likely one of the important factors that also influenced the development of fertility. For a more detailed examination of patterns of reproductive behavior and unemployment a cluster analysis was made for territorial units at the level LAU 1. In this analysis the main indicators were included as well as their changes after 2008. This method managed to define several areas with identical fertility and unemployment characteristics. Key words: fertility, unemployment, economic development, Czechia, regional differentiation
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Childlesness as way of life style
Kolářová, Karolína ; Kocourková, Jiřina (advisor) ; Šťastná, Anna (referee)
This thesis focuses on childlesness in lifestyle concept. The aim of the thesis is to characterize the lifestyle of childless respondents. The work describes the various lifestyle related factors and reproductive plans. Comprehensive analysis is processed using logistic regression and determines how much a given factors affects repro- ductive plans and ultimate childlessness. Key words: childlesness, life style, fertility, reproductive behaviour 1
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Multi-child families: patterns and background
Faberová, Anna ; Rychtaříková, Jitka (advisor) ; Šťastná, Anna (referee)
Multi-child families: patterns and background Abstract The scope of this thesis is to analyse fertility rate in the Czech Republic aiming at the third- and higher-order fertility rates. The objective consists in finding, defining and assessing the determinants and factors that may affect the higher-order fertility rates. As the pivotal source of the input data, the individual anonymized data from the Czech Republic Population and Housing Census held in 2011 were used. Only the data referring to women born in the period 1920-1971 that gave at least two live births were selected for the purpose of the detailed fertility rates analysis. The analysis was carried out by way of nominal logistic regression. The gain of the thesis is a detailed evaluation of the higher- order fertility rates pursuant to the four factors or determinants - concerning the women in question - that have been selected for this purpose, i.e.: highest level of completed education; size of the municipality of residence; religious belief; and characteristics according to the fertile partnerships. In particular the mutual links among the factors in question and the higher-order fertility rates are specified in the thesis. Keywords: multi-child families, fertility, higher-order fertility, generation, census, nominal logistic regression
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Regional differentiation of fertility according to legitimacy in the Czech Republic, 1993-2012
Říhová, Kristýna ; Fialová, Ludmila (advisor) ; Šťastná, Anna (referee)
Regional differentiation of fertility according to legitimacy in the Czech Republic, 1993-2012 Abstract The aim of this thesis is to analyze the evolution of marital and extra-marital fertility in the Czech Republic between 1993-2012. In addition to a brief overview of the Czech Republic, the focus is on data for the districts. To demonstrate the developments and comparisons, we selected the starting and ending years and also the years 1999 and 2008. Thus, the years in when the least and the most children were born. Because of different numbers of births during the years surveyed between individual districts, comparisons of percentages of births were chosen. We have demonstrated that there are differences between districts and larger proportion of children who were born outside of marriage, especially single mothers in the districts in the northwest, the north, and the northeast of the Czech Republic. These data were illustrated in using cartograms with the help of ArcMac. We also focused on the relationship between the birth order of the child and the mother's marital status. Here, we demonstrated that the share of children born to single mothers is higher in children of the firstborn than of the second- and third- born. Keywords: Marital and extra-marital fertility, mother's marital status, birth order,...
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The journey motif in ¡Écue-Yamba-Ó!
Šťastná, Anna ; Poláková, Dora (advisor) ; Zaťko, Roman (referee)
This thesis analyses the journey motif in the novel ¡Écue-Yamba-Ó!, which was written by Alejo Carpentier in 1933. The author had to leave Cuba, his birth country, for political reasons. He moved to Paris for 11 years where he gained a lot of inspiration for his literary production. The thesis therefore sets Carpentier to the cultural and historical context. Afterwards deliberates over variants of journey in literature, describes the journey horizontal, vertical, of life and the encounter motif, which is relationed to the journey motif. In the main part applies the theoretical findings to the analysis of the novel ¡Écue-Yamba-Ó!. Journeys in the novel are undergone especially by its protagonist Menegildo, but also by the most important woman character Longina. In the final part the thesis presents the theory of lo real maravilloso and sketches other adaptations of the journey motif in later novels of Alejo Carpentier. Keywords Alejo Carpentier, the debut novel, the journey motif, ¡Écue-Yamba-Ó!, Menegildo, Cuba
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Single-parent families in the Czech Republic from census data and sample surveys
Mazalová, Jitka ; Kurtinová, Olga (advisor) ; Šťastná, Anna (referee)
Single-parent families in the Czech Republic from census and sample surveys Abstract The main objective of this thesis is to comprehensively chart as much as possible what we can learn about single-parent families in the Czech Republic from all publicly available data sources, such as surveys and censuses. Incomplete families are viewed from a historical and the contemporary perspective and the expected development of a structure for the future is also shown. Single-parent families are a contemporary phenomenon because the number of dependent children in the incomplete families in the Czech republic has increased by almost a half in the last fifteen years. The thesis provides information about various data sources regarding single-parent families and it evaluates their use and comparability for the research. It also contains an analysis of the structure of families and households based on the population development and census data in the Czech Republic. The financial situation of single-parent families is examined in detail - their income expenditure, individual groups of cash expenditures. The thesis also focuses on the description of their apartment's facilities. Based on the results of the generated forecasts of the number of nuclear families in the Czech Republic for the period 2015-2050, which comes...
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Fertility postponement in the Czech Republic and selected European countries in the period 1990−2015
Tovarová, Lenka ; Kurtinová, Olga (advisor) ; Šťastná, Anna (referee)
Fertility postponement in the Czech republic and selected European countries in the period 1990−2015 Abstract We have been able to observe the trend of shifting of maternity to later periods of life in European countries since the second half of the 20th century. However crucial for this thesis is to determine whether there have been disparity in delaying of maternity between selected Eastern European (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland) and Western European (Germany and Austria) countries since 1990 till present. The goal of this work is to find the relationship among setting of family policies, fertility rate of older women and respondents' views. In the first part of this thesis are outlined basic theories explaining postponing of maternity. There are also listed consequences related to the late maternity. The thesis touches a topic of family policies which influence the phenomenon of late maternity. It presents several fundamental tools of family policies and compares them among selected countries. The second part focuses on a description of demographic indicators that demonstrate the shift in timing of maternity. The main analysis in this thesis is a logistic regression, which explains respondent's views on issues related to a harmonization of family and employment by selected explanatory variables from...
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