<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The contribution mainly focuses on monitoring of the population development in the Czech Republic, particularly at the micro-regional level. It monitors development of the natural population change, migration, and overall population development in two monitored periods, and conducts SO ORP typology based on this development with respect to the natural population change, migration, and overall increase. Today, the migration in the developed regions is the determinative element of the population development. To put it simply, the determinative division of the migration population development is into two units (east and west zone, Moravia and Bohemia), where Moravia has negative migration and Bohemia sees positive migration; however, there are significant differences in the middle of the units where Brno metropolitan area has highly positive migration, especially from the rest of Moravia and Silesia, and on the contrary, Karlovy Vary region sees significantly negative migration; over the last years, the negative migration has been relatively higher compared to Moravia-Silesia Region. The micro-regions at SO ORP level assist us in distinguishing of continuous territories with either positive or negative population development.</p></abstract>

The contribution mainly focuses on monitoring of the population development in the Czech Republic, particularly at the micro-regional level. It monitors development of the natural population change, migration, and overall population development in two monitored periods, and conducts SO ORP typology based on this development with respect to the natural population change, migration, and overall increase. Today, the migration in the developed regions is the determinative element of the population development. To put it simply, the determinative division of the migration population development is into two units (east and west zone, Moravia and Bohemia), where Moravia has negative migration and Bohemia sees positive migration; however, there are significant differences in the middle of the units where Brno metropolitan area has highly positive migration, especially from the rest of Moravia and Silesia, and on the contrary, Karlovy Vary region sees significantly negative migration; over the last years, the negative migration has been relatively higher compared to Moravia-Silesia Region. The micro-regions at SO ORP level assist us in distinguishing of continuous territories with either positive or negative population development.

Population Development and its Typology in the Czech Republic at the Level of Micro-regions

Faculty of Social and Economic Studies, J. E. Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem,

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The contribution mainly focuses on monitoring of the population development in the Czech Republic, particularly at the micro-regional level. It monitors...

Population Development and its Typology in the Czech Republic at the Level of Micro-regions

Published Online: Jan 23, 2017

Page range: 53 - 61

Received: Jun 07, 2016

Accepted: Dec 05, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/geosc-2016-0005

Keywords
public administration, migration, population development, Czech Republic

© 2016 Miloslav Šašek, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Population Development and its Typology in the Czech Republic at the Level of Micro-regions

Published Online: Jan 23, 2017

Page range: 53 - 61

Received: Jun 07, 2016

Accepted: Dec 05, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/geosc-2016-0005

Keywordspublic administration, migration, population development, Czech Republic

© 2016 Miloslav Šašek, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
public administration, migration, population development, Czech Republic