Inspektor T., Horák J., Ivan I., Hruška-Tvrdý L. Monitoring of Socially Excluded Localities. Case Study of Ostrava.

The monitoring of socially excluded localities is required by local authorities to take appropriate measures in the case of significant changes. The register of unemployed persons may provide important indicators of the unemployment status of individual localities and also a movement of social conditions there. A special processing of data from labour offices is necessary to protect the personal privacy. Detection of endangered localities in Ostrava city was based on data records from 2007 and 2009-2011 using both quadrat and kernel methods. A share of registered unemployed to inhabitants in productive age can substitute the rate of unemployment due to high correlation of both indicators. Other evaluated factors include rate of unemployment for young people (between 18 and 25), for older people (between 50 and 65), share of unemployed with basic education, share of health-handicapped unemployed and share of long-term unemployed persons. The methods enable to reveal localities not discovered by experts. Monitoring of selected localities utilizes temporal changes of localities expressed in aggregated values, changes of indicators' values and its internal spatial structure. The paper documents changes of street-level socio-economic situation and proposes suitable methods for required monitoring.