NOTES ON METHODOLOGY
Data source
Data on births are based on the systematic
collection of information entered into the state registries of births.
Observation units
The data are collected currently on each
birth.
Coverage and comparability
According to international recommendations
(UN, Eurostat) data on births have been collected and processed in line with the
definition of the usual residence.
Definitions and explanations
Definitions applied in vital statistics are
based on recommendations of the UN, Eurostat, WHO and positive regulations of
the Republic of Croatia.
A live-born child
(live birth) is every child who exhibits signs
of life at birth, such as breathing, beating of the heart, pulsation of the
umbilical cord or definite movements of voluntary muscles. If a child dies soon
after birth, it is first registered as a live-born and then as a dead infant.
Data by age are expressed by completed years of age.
In establishing a
birth order of a child, all previous live births are taken into
account.
Educational attainment
is considered the highest level of completed
education. It should be irrelevant if this school was a regular school, an
equivalent substitute school (e.g. school for education of adults) or completed
by passing the necessary exams in a regular school or completing a course of
abridged education within regular schooling (e.g. an abridged course for
basic education).
The modality “without schooling and 1 –
3 grades of basic school“ refers to persons who did not attend school,
still do not attend school (pre-school children), pupils who completed these
grades and pupils who attend second, third or fourth grade of a basic school.
The modality “4 – 7 grades of basic
school” refers to all persons who completed these grades and to pupils who
attend 5th – 8th grade of a basic school.
The modality “basic school” refers to
persons who completed a basic (eight-grade) school, former eight-grade or
seven-grade school, former junior grammar school, that is, lower grades of a
grammar school, former civic school as well as other similar schools providing a
junior-level certificate.
The modality “industrial and vocational
school, occupational school lasting 1 – 3 years” refers to persons
who have finished a commercial school, a school with training, an
industrial or vocational school or any other educational equivalent with
a programme lasting less than four years, an artisan school and
other, similar schools.
The modality “technical and related
vocational school, occupational school lasting 4 years or longer” refers to
persons who have finished a technical or a similar school (for
example, a school of economy, school of medicine, art school and the
like) and former dedicated education programmes lasting four years or
longer.
The modality “grammar school” refers to
persons who have finished a grammar school, regardless of the type, including
religious ones.
The modality “school of professional higher
education, undergraduate study, professional study lasting less than 3 years”
refers to persons who have finished a professional study or the
former undergraduate study lasting two to three years, a school of professional
higher education, an institution of higher education, a polytechnics or a
faculty (earlier also pedagogical and art academies).
The modality “undergraduate professional
study lasting 3 years or longer” refers to persons who have finished a
professional study at an institution of higher education,
polytechnics or a faculty lasting three to four years.
The modality “specialist graduate
professional study” refers to persons who have finished a specialist
graduate professional study at an institution of higher education, polytechnics
or a faculty lasting one to two years, which grants a professional title of a
professional specialist, with an indicated field of profession or a specific
part of it.
The modality “undergraduate university
study” refers to persons who have finished an undergraduate university study
lasting three to four years at a faculty, art academy or institution of higher
education, which grants an academic title of a university baccalaureus/a with an
indicated field of profession (for example, university baccalaureus/a of
archeology, university baccalaureus/a of economy, university baccalaureus/a
engineer of geodesy and the like).
The modality “faculty, art academy,
university study, graduate university study and integrated undergraduate and
graduate university study” refers to persons who have finished a
university or art study (former seventh degree of study) at a faculty,
art academy or institution of higher education lasting four years or longer
according to the old programme or a graduate university study or an integrated
undergraduate and graduate university study lasting five years or longer
according to the Bologna programme, which grants the academic title of a Master
with an indicated field of profession, for example a master of law, master of
economy, master engineer of geodesy, while finishing the graduate university
study of medicine, dental medicine or a veterinary study grants the academic
title of a doctor with an indicated field of profession.
The modality “postgraduate specialist
study” refers to persons who have finished a university postgraduate
specialist study lasting one to two years which grants the academic title of a
university specialist with an indicated field of profession or a specific part
of it, for example, university specialist of financial analysis, university
specialist of social politics. Finishing this type of study in medicine, dental
medicine or a veterinary study, a person is granted the academic title of a
university master with an indicated field of profession or a part of it.
The modality “master's level scientific,
professional and art study” refers to persons who have finished a
postgraduate study and were granted the title of a master.
The modality “doctorate” refers to
persons who have defended their doctoral dissertation and were thereby granted
the academic title of a doctor of science or a doctor of art.
The following categories of persons
are considered active: persons who work
for their living (in paid employment or self-employed on a private or family
farm, in crafts and trades or other shops, at home, etc.), persons who are
looking for their first or new employment and persons who interrupted their
employment due to serving a sentence or detention measures, correctional
measures, etc.
Persons with personal income
are retired persons of all categories,
beneficiaries of social welfare or persons who get their income from leasing
land, houses, shops, workshops or other property.
Dependants
are persons who do not possess their own
income and are supported by parents, spouses, relatives, state institutions,
etc.
Territorial constitution
The data are presented by the territorial constitution according to the
Act on the Territories of Counties, Cities and Municipalities in the Republic of
Croatia (NN, No. 86/06) with the situation as on the end of the reference year.
Abbreviations
Eurostat
Statistical Office of the European Communities
NN
Narodne novine, official gazette of the Republic of Croatia
UN
United Nations
WHO World Health
Organization
Symbols
-
no
occurrence