Cesta ke vzniku Zemského statistického úřadu v Čechách a jeho činnost

The bachelor's thesis presents the Provincial Statistical Office of Bohemian Kingdom and the circumstances that led to its establishment. The thesis is completed by numerous citations and illustrations of that time which help a reader to understand why the statistics emerged and afterwards developed. Moreover, it gives an idea of the difficult beginnings of statistical researches. The main contribution of the thesis is the provision of a compact idea of the activity and functioning of the Provincial Statistical Office of Bohemian Kingdom and its publications. The first part of the thesis is dedicated to origins of administrative statistics in the Habsburg Monarchy and personalities who contributed to its development. The following part focuses on the provincial statistics in Bohemia and primarily on the establishment of the Provincial Statistical Office of Bohemian Kingdom. Furthermore, there is a synopsis, which describes the activity of the Office until the establishment of the State Statistical Office in Czechoslovakia. There is given a detailed description of the methods and the course of statistical research and of the difficulties related to them. The end of the chapter describes the activity of the Office during the First World War and its influence on the statistics of that time.