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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
Chrudim region in the half of 17th century - demographic and social structure
Kačerová, Eva ; Fialová, Ludmila (advisor) ; Maur, Eduard (referee) ; Závodský, Prokop (referee)
The aim of the submitted thesis is to give an overall picture of the demographic structure of the population of the Chrudim region after the end of the Thirty Years War as recorded in the List of Serfs according to Faith of 1651. Each individual was listed according to name, occupation or relationship to household head, age and religious status. The List recorded 46 626 persons of the Chrudim region. This List did not avoid the rounding-off the age of the people and failed to record consistently the infant part of the population. One of the main aims is to provide an estimate of the child component of the population. The basic prerequisite for estimating the number of children under the age of 12 was that women (men) of the same age in various parts of the estates had on average the same or at least a similar number of children in the individual age groups. Mathematical models eliminating rounding the age of the people consist in formalisation of thinking the way people could rounding their age. One possibility is hypothesis that closer their real age was to some favourite age (multiples 10, 5, even numbers) so much the more they rounded their age for this favourite values. Another possibility presents hypothesis of uniform tendency to rounding within the frame of determinate interval. The last...

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