About the project
Our vision is to provide a complex data solution that serves the strategic management and decision making of municipalities.
Our vision is to provide a complex data solution that serves the strategic management and decision making of municipalities.
Which municipality in the Czech Republic has the best quality of life? Could better working and educational opportunities lead to worse availability of housing or bad air quality? Are there localities where troubles are concentrated?
People usually make a decision about where to live a few times during their lifetime. They want to have a healthy life with a good standard of living in a cultural and safe environment that is professionally managed. People ideally want to live where these values are prioritized or they require improvement from existing government. We want to contribute to better decision making about where to live. We would like to provide information to improve communication with the representatives of each municipality and allow people to participate more within the development of their municipality.
We believe that data analyses and detailed comparisons of municipalities could lead to setting better strategic priorities in the municipality. We want to contribute to associations of municipalities which could help to solve problems more effectively, to inspire each other and to cooperate. In general, we would like to change adverse trends in some municipalities as well as larger regions. Nothing is given.
The Obce v datech, s.r.o. company was founded as a startup with the purpose of realizing a specific product – a life-quality index – and related derivatives using automated processing of big data.
The members of our team are experts with extensive experience in public-sector consulting, consultants with experience from the top consulting companies and young enthusiastic analysts from the fields of economy, statistics and demographics.
Data is the foundation. We will help you build on it. Apart from the Life-Quality Index, we offer consulting services ranging from tailored data and analysis to comprehensive Smart City strategies.
The project Municipalities in Data compares the quality of life in 206 municipalities with extended coverage in the Czech Republic. For this purpose, 29 indexes were created that capture the relative level of key factors influencing life in the municipality. Each index shows how the given territory stands in comparison with the best municipality in the given area. We use automated robotic mining of big data and cooperate with public institutions including the Czech Statistical Office, CERMAT, the Ministry of Education and the Labour Office.
The methodology is based on internationally recognized approaches used by organizations such as OECD and UN. It combines these frameworks with mathematical statistical tools that allow objective comparison of individual municipalities in the Czech Republic.
The index works with a range of 0 to 10. The lowest ranked municipality gets a value of 0 and the best ranked municipality gets a value of 10. Other municipalities are distributed between these two points according to the relative relationship of their results.
It is worth mentioning a few principles. The indexes do not express the absolute quality or subjective satisfaction of the population. They show the relative degree of availability or number of monitored services and characteristics in relation to the best-rated municipality. They therefore make it possible to compare municipalities with each other, but they are not a measure of whether a given situation is objectively sufficient. A qualitative comparison of the selected indicators with standards or expert recommendations is part of the paid version of the quality of life report. It offers a deeper interpretation of the results and makes it possible to assess whether the situation corresponds to the needs of both citizens and society.
The indices serve mainly as a tool for benchmarking and identification of municipalities with similar starting conditions. In relation to the public, it is advisable to emphasize the trend and relative position of the municipality and not to present the index as an absolute measure of quality of life.
We will help you build on it. What can we do for your municipality?
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