Statistická ročenka Olomouckého kraje 2003 - Český statistický úřad

from changes in the purpose of use without any prior construction modifications are not included. Thenumber of dwellings includes dwellings located in constructions for housing as well as elsewhere.Constructions for housing are multi-dwelling buildings in which the function of housing prevails, plusfamily houses. The dwelling refers to one or more rooms designed for living by the planning authorityand can serve the purpose of living as independent dwelling units. The dwellings started aredwellings, whose construction was started in the reference period, as laid down in the builder’s diary,irrespective of whether they were completed or not. The dwellings completed are dwellings approvedfor use by the planning authority, the approval taking effect in the reference period. Dwellings underconstruction are dwellings whose construction was started (in the reference year or earlier), but notyet finished by the end of the reference period. The habitable floor area is the floor area of habitablerooms. The habitable room is a room directly lit and ventilated, of at least 8 m2 in floor area, which canbe directly or indirectly heated and which is designed for living all the year round.Data on building permits are processed from figures reported on questionnaires submitted byindividual planning authorities. The building permit pursuant to Article 66 of Act No. 83/1998 Coll.,which amends Act No. 50/1976 Coll., on Planning and Construction Order (Construction Act), laysdown binding conditions for the implementation and use of the construction. Estimated value ofconstructions comprises total costs (at current prices), including technology, spent on preparing andimplementing the construction and on putting it into operation.Environmental protection refers to construction activities aimed to control water pollution, dispose ofor use waste, reclaim land, and reduce impact of physical factor on the environment.Construction trades survey (designated as STAV 2002) was mounted to upgrade basic informationon construction output. Its aim was to get more accurate information on the share of tradesmen in totalconstruction output and to determine key territorial and industrial activities of the measured group ofbusinesses. The reporting duty concerned all natural persons (legal forms 101 and 102) engaged inconstruction business and having no employees.The presented data on construction are comparable to the data released in previous years.FIXED ASSETSAcquisition of tangible and intangible fixed assets is statistically measured for all investorsclassified to the business sphere, which employ 20 or more employees (in banking and insuranceirrespective of the number of employees). In the non-business sphere, data measured since 2001refer to semi-budgeted organizations and private and public universities disregarding the number ofemployees and the volume of fixed assets (before 2001, the measurement also included budgetaryorganizations, municipalities and districts). Territorially, the fixed assets are broken down by headoffice of the investor concerned (enterprise approach) and the CZ-NACE division is determinedaccording to the investor’s principal activity.The data include expenditure spent on procurement of tangible and intangible fixed assets bypurchase, own activity (on own account) or of rights to use results of intellectual activity. It alsoincludes the value of fixed assets acquired by free transfer and on financial leasing (at acquisitionprice). The expenditure does not include costs of assets low in value (CZK 40 000 and CZK 60 000 fortangible and intangible fixed assets, respectively), whose life does not exceed one year.The data on investments are comparable with data for the year 2001.RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENTDomestic R&D expenditure as regional data according to places of work have been measured since2001.By R&D employees is the full-time equivalent (FTE) used to convert part-time employment into fulltimeemployment (full working hours). The conversion gives a true picture of the time spent on R&D,avoiding underestimation and/or overestimation of the number of employees engaged in R&D.160Statistická ročenka Olomouckého kraje 2003