Figure 6 Subsidiary protection
granted
in the years
2007 - 2017
Subsidiary
protection
granted
each year (2007 - 2017)
60
51
50
40
27
30
20
10
0
17
16
16
16
11
3
2007
2
2008
2009
8
6
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
Source: MoI CZ – International Protection in the Czech Republic: Annual Statistical Overview for 2017
4.2 Stateless persons in the statistics of the Czech Statistical Office
4.2.1 Census of Population, Buildings and Dwellings
The Census of Population, Buildings and Dwellings (hereinafter the “Census”) is conducted regularly by the CSO.
The outcome of Censuses can also provide, to a partial extent, information on the number of stateless persons.
After the establishment of the independent Czech Republic in 1993, two Censuses were conducted – in 2001 and
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In the Censuses, foreigners were asked about their citizenship with the option to indicate that they were “stateless
persons” (in Czech: “osoba bez státního občanství”, literally a “person without a citizenship”). Based on this
criterion, there were 2,544 persons in the Czech Republic in 2001 who identified themselves as being stateless.
The most commonly represented age category of stateless persons was under 19 years of age, while the second
most common category were persons between 30 to 39 years of age (see Table 3).
Table 3 Age groups among the stateless population according to the 2001 Census
Age groups
Nationality
Population
total
under 19
20 to 29
30 to 39
40 to 49
50 to 59
60+ or
not indicated
Stateless
2,544
525
465
484
416
285
369
Source: CSO, 2001 Census, Table 5 Population according to age and nationality
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Information collected on the population in 2001 included all persons who were living in the country at the time on the basis of a
permanent or long-term residence, regardless of whether they were present at the place of residence at the time of the Census. In 2011,
the total population included all persons with a place of habitual residence (a place where a person usually spends his or her leisure time,
regardless of temporary absence) in the Czech Republic at the relevant time, where the decisive criterion for including a person was one
year of residence or plans to stay in the Czech Republic in the long term.
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