POPULATION ATLAS OF SLOVAKIA    
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Population atlas of Slovakia is the scientific analysis and cartographic interpretation of the demographic situation in Slovakia. It represents the first comprehensive processing of complete fundamental information on development, distribution, housing, dynamic and prognoses of the population in Slovakia. The set of maps represents the work at a high scientific, informative and cultural value.

The conception of chapters:

1. Development and distribution of population.
The development of the basic demographic processes from the oldest statistical data to the present time. The spatial distribution of population according to the natural and administrative units (regions, districts, communes ).
Responsible editor: Doc. RNDr. Dagmar KUSENDOVÁ, CSc.

2. Natural movement of population.
The development of population processes (natality, fertility, mortality, marriage divorce, abortion and natural increase) and their changes in the recent developmental period. The spatial differentiation of the processes.
Responsible editor: : RNDr. Jana MARENČÁKOVÁ, CSc.

3. Space movement of population.
The main types of the space population movement - commuting to work and schools, migration, in their spatial differentiation. Immigration and emigration regions. The foreign migration.
Responsible editor: RNDr. Peter PODOLÁK, CSc.

4. Population structures.
The population analysis according to age and sex and population ageing. Ethnic, religious and educational structure of population. The economic and social structure (branche, sectoral structures, development and differentiation of unemployment).
Responsible editor: Prof. RNDr. Jozef MLÁDEK, DrSc.

5. Housing.
The features of the housing (age and category of flats). The housing quality - amenities and equipment of flats and households.
Responsible editor: Ing. Boris VAŇO

6. Population syntheses.
Evaluation of the reproductive process, and total movement of population. The quality of life and helth - life expectancy, structure of death causes, and level of population housing. The negative social phenomenons.The demographic regionalisation.
Responsible editor: Prof. RNDr. Jozef MLÁDEK, DrSc.

7. Population forecasts.
Population development until 2025. The population forecast at the national and district levels.
Responsible editor: Ing. Boris VAŇO

In total 444 maps and 168 graphs are included into the Atlas. The Atlas will be published in three forms - a classic book edition, loose sheets of individual chapters, and on the compact disk.


Publisher:
Faculty of Nature Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava

Contact persons:
Branislav Bleha, PhD. [ bleha@fns.uniba.sk ]
Prof. Jozef Mládek, DrSc. [ mladek@fns.uniba.sk ]

Cooperation:
Infostat - Demographic Research Centre, Bratislava
Esprit s.r.o. Banská Štiavnica

The population Atlas of Slovakia was approved in the framework of the thematic governmental research and development programme "The topical questions of the development of society" of the Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic.


Distribution:
VEDA, vydavatežstvo SAV, odbyt
Bradáčova 7, Pošt. priečinok 2
84502 Bratislav 45
Slovakia
Tel.: 00421 2 5477 4255
Mobil: 00421902 917009
Fax: 004212 5477 2682

Price:
Atlas fixed binding, Monograph (English or Slovak), DVD Atlas: 98 EURO
Atlas free sheets, Monograph, DVD Atlas: 82 EURO
Atlas fixed binding: 72 EURO
Atlas free sheets: 62 EURO
Monograph English: 42 EURO
Monograph Slovak: 42 EURO
DVD Atlas: 40 EURO


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