Election Statistics

Name of Organization: 
Czech Statistical Office
Geographical Scope: 
Regions:
Country:
Purpose: 
According to a special law the Czech Statistical Office provides all the results of all kinds of election in the country, statistical data about share of women, young people, seniors etc. on voted institution (National Parliament, Regional Parliament, European Parliament, Board of municipality).
Area of Governance : 
Electoral Systems
Website of initiative: 
http://www.czso.cz
Publications: 
For the Catalogue of all publication of the Czech Statistical Office see: http://www.czso.cz/eng/redakce.nsf/i/publications
 
For results of elections see: http://www.volby.cz/index_en.htm
 
All informations are in Czech and English
Cost (specify currency): 
special budget for every election
Funding sources: 
Budget of the Czech Statistical Office (part of the government budget)
Source of Data: 
Using a combination of own and existing data
Type of Data Collection: 
Census
Random sample population survey
Specifications of type of data collection: 
For evaluation, statistical surveys of the Czech Statistical Office and administrative data sources are used (especially from the Ministries of Labor and social affairs, Health care, Education, Justice, Regional development, Industry and Trade).
 
Levels of aggregation are as follows: country -14 regions- 76 districts - 6 248 municipalities (there are only data on election and from census of population and housing).
Measurement Methods / Tools Generated or Used : 
Statistical surveys:
 
  1. census of population 100% from 10,200,000 inhabitants of the country
  2. statistical surveys mostly 100% of population
  3. data from business statistics (salaries, employment)
  4. sampling surveys, the SME 1-5%, large businesses 100%
  5. election statistics - 100% of voters
List of Indicators: 
Number of voters
List of elected
Statistics of elected by age and sex
Main Users: 
Media
Other
Policy makers
Researchers