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Composition of Population, Families and Households in Chodsko at the End of the 19th Century
Oplatková, Barbora ; Velková, Alice (advisor) ; Fialová, Ludmila (referee)
Composition of Population, Families and Households in Chodsko at the End of the 19th Century Abstract The knowledge of historical life of population is very important. This thesis is historical-demographic research of Chodsko in the second half of the 19th century. The main aim of this thesis is to compare the composition of population, families and households. The chosen data were for years 1869, 1880, 1890 and 1900. The years when the first censuses were taken in Czech Lands. Population, families and households were analyzed separately using historical-demographic, demographic analysis and statistics methods. The results showed that inhabitants of Chodsko were not so different from the inhabitants from the rest of Czech Lands. The most common were patriarchal nuclear households. Families were mostly about average size with two to four members. Hypothesis that the countryside population had more family members was not confirmed. Keywords: Composition of Population, Composition of Families, Composition of Households, Chodsko, 19th Century
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The relationship between religion and reproductive behavior in demographic perspective
Fajfrová, Doris ; Hulíková Tesárková, Klára (advisor) ; Velková, Alice (referee)
The relationship between religion and reproductive behavior in demographic perspective Abstract The aim of this thesis is to provide a deeper discussion of the relationship of religion to reproductive behavior at the theoretical, methodological and practical level. The secondary objective is to introduce a recently formed branch called religious demography. The main part of the thesis is of a theoretical and methodological character, and is built on the comprehensive elaboration of the foreign literature, which is dealing with the theme of religion and reproductive behavior. In the first chapter, the latest processes and changes that occur on the religious scene and difficulties associated just with the research in this area are described. The second chapter is dealing with general methodological problems, which are mainly related to the operationalization of religion and the availability of data needed to examine the relationship of religion to reproductive behavior. The third chapter then presents two demographic prospects, which reveal two different ways of relationships, showing how to deal with the religion and the demographic reproduction. In the final part a model example is introduced, based on principles of religious demography. The example is built on data of the individual categories of...
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Structures of population in Rakovník town at the beginning of the 20th century
Rešová, Kateřina ; Fialová, Ludmila (advisor) ; Velková, Alice (referee)
Structures of population in Rakovník town at the beginning of the 20th century Abstract The purpose of this thesis is to analyse and describe the structures of population, families and households in the central bohemian town Rakovník at the beginning of the 20th century. The thesis is based on the data from 1910 and 1921 censuses. The data was excerpted from the census sheets. The work is divided into 10 chapters. It focuses on demographic, social, ethnic and economic charakteristics of the population. The place of birth is analyzed and the structures of families and households are also studied in detail. The results show how big was the impact of the first world war on people in Rakovník. The sex-age structure was changed between the analyzed years. Also changes like the aging of population and increase of the proportion of widoved persons were registered. Between the years 1910 and 1921 the change in religion of people in town was noticed as well. Keywords: population, families, households, historic demography, Rakovník
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Fertility and preschool childcare in the Czech republic and chosen European countries
Kociánová, Gabriela ; Kurtinová, Olga (advisor) ; Velková, Alice (referee)
Fertility and preschool childcare in the Czech Republic and chosen European countries Abstract The objective of this study is to compare level of fertility and accessibility of childcare in the Czech Republic and chosen countries during period 1998-2014, and also to evaluate Czech Republic among chosen states. Furthermore aim of this study is also to evaluate whether the Barcelona Targets in childcare are in the chosen states met. Countries for this study were chosen on the basis of typology of family policy, they include France, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Portugal and Austria. Data used in this study are primarily from the Human Fertility Database, Eurostat Database, and OECD Family Database. For analyzing fertility and accessibility of childcare are used mainly indicators of the total fertility rate, decomposition of general fertility rate and enrollment rates in pre-primary education. Moreover indexes summarizing key features of family policies and preschool childcare are computed for year 2011. In the context of level of fertility two groups of countries are defined. France, the United Kingdom and Sweden are countries with higher level of fertility while Austria, Portugal and the Czech Republic are countries with lower level of fertility. Concerning the level of accessibility of preschool childcare, in...
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Process and timing of cardiovascular revolution in selected European countries
Raymanová, Petra ; Hulíková Tesárková, Klára (advisor) ; Velková, Alice (referee)
Process and timing of cardiovascular revolution in selected European countries Abstract Structure of mortality according to age, sex and causes of death is changing over time. Several authors are trying to describe or generalize these changes and create theories or concepts about the changes in mortality structure. One of these concepts is cardiovascular revolution. This concept describes changes in mortality in Europe is the second half of 20th century. Nevertheless in some European countries these changes are still in progress. The concept of cardiovascular revolution concerns the decrease of cardiovascular disease mortality. Within cardiovascular diseases the highest mortality is caused by ischemic heart diseases. The prevalence of some chronic or degenerative diseases is not decreasing or is slightly increasing and overall mortality shifts to higher ages. The aim of this thesis is to evaluate process and timing of cardiovascular revolution in selected European countries. The objective was achieved by means of interpretation of the basic demographic methods. In the first part of this thesis were these methods calculated and presented for every single group of causes of death separately. Cardiovascular diseases were split into four more detailed subgroups in the next part of thesis and the analysis was...
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Transforming the composition of families and households in the 19th and the 20th centuries in a selected area of the Czech Lands
Havlíčková, Barbora ; Fialová, Ludmila (advisor) ; Velková, Alice (referee)
Transforming the composition of families and households in the 19th and 20th centuries in a selected area of the Czech Lands Abstract The aim of this work is to analyze changes in the size and composition of families and households in the 19th and 20th centuries in the South Bohemian town of Soběslav. The research is based on a comparison of data obtained excerption of census in 1869, 1880 and 1910. The first part of the demographic analysis focuses on the assessment of the size and structure of the population by age, sex, family status and nationality. In the second part the survey data from individual census are processed for individual households and families. The notion of familly and household is based on the basis of cohabitation. The division of households by the P. Laslett was used.
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The demographic development of the population in the city of Litoměřice in the years 1700-1799
Moszová, Vendula ; Fialová, Ludmila (advisor) ; Velková, Alice (referee)
The demographic development of the population in the city of Litoměřice in the years 1700-1799 Abstract The aim of Thesis is capturing the development of natural change in city of Litomerice and its suburbs in the 18th century and characterizing the basic demographic indicators. Absolute number of marriages, births and deaths was found by using Name excerpts from parish registers. Based on the aggregate method, the data was classified according to the needs analysis for individual years or decades. The development of natural change of Litoměřice was compared with the results of local probes in southern Bohemia, on the estate Stahlavy, in Usti nad Labem and in the cities of Frydek and Mistek. Comparator sites were chosen to represent different areas as well as geographically close or distant cities. Results of comparation confirmed the different demographic developments in urban and rural areas and showed the influence of geographical distance of each city. Keywords: development of natural change, 18th century, Litoměřice, the population estimates
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Pregnancy, childbirth and child care during the first years of the life in the early-modern noble household in the light of ego-documents
Mejsnarová, Zdeňka ; Velková, Alice (referee) ; Šedivá Koldinská, Marie (advisor)
The bachelor thesis investigates the daily life of the Czech Early-Modern nobility during the period of pregnancy, childbirth, early childhood and especially iťs picture in ego-documents. On the basis of enunciation of the epistolary material, family memoirs and diaries describes essential aspects of the reception of this life cycle with reference to the specifics of the noble background and with emphasis on the differences or resemblances of present time. It observes both woman and man views of this problem and tries to implicate the significance of a child for the family, the importance of the christening, the choice of servants, the ways of health complication treatment and facing up to the death.
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