Waste Management Statistics in the Czech Republic

Part 7: Environmental Management/-Accounting and -StatisticsInternational audienceHistory of statistics in the field of waste management in the Czech Republic is relatively long. At present the waste management survey is focused among others at the generation of waste by enterprises and municipalities, methods of waste use and disposal, and other methods of waste management.The main objecotive of the paper is to introduce the system development and the processing methods. The paper deals not solely with the determination of the set of reporting units and its changes over years, yet also with technology of data processing, system of checks, corrections, and with a description of control relations. Following to the reduction of administrative burden on respondents and reduction of the respondent pool (from 18 thousand to 10 thousand over 5 years), methods for imputations and statistical checks are also presented. The discussion part of the paper is focused at balancing the purpose of waste management data with respective administrative burden related to their production