Profile: Branislav Šprocha, doc., RNDr., PhD., Researcher

    Research Field

    • Population development
    • Family and reproductive behavior
    • Population structures, families and households
    • Population and derived forecasts

    Forecasts, Prospects, Analyzes, Strategies

    • The research is conceptually focused on issues of population development at the national and regional level, families and households, family and reproductive behavior and some specifically defined population groups (labor force, urban and rural population, population of the largest cities in Slovakia, people living in Roma communities). From a theoretical and methodological point of view, we try to apply some of the latest advanced analytical and prognostic techniques using, among other things, a cohort approach. Several of the above population forecasts were constructed in Slovakia for the first time and represent a relevant and important tool for decision-making processes in various areas of institutions (eg MLSA, MFSR, NBS, City Hall of the Slovak Republic, etc.).

    Concise Profile

    Branislav Šprocha is an independent researcher at the Center of Social and Psychological Sciences of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. His research has long been focused on the population development in Slovakia and its regions, transformation of reproductive behavior and population structures after 1989, the issue of the demographic picture of the Roma population in Slovakia and also the construction of population projections.

    Scientific Projects

      Selected Publishing Activity

        ŠPROCHA, Branislav - FITALOVÁ, Anna. Neskorá plodnosť na Slovensku = Late Fertility in Slovakia. In Sociológia - Slovak Sociological Review, 2022, roč. 54, č. 1, s. 26-52. ISSN 0049-1225. Dostupné na: https://doi.org/10.31577/sociologia.2022.54.1.2 (VEGA č. 2/0064/20 : Pokračujúca transformácia rodinného a reprodukčného správania na Slovensku v časovom a priestorovom aspekte)

        ŠPROCHA, Branislav. Sobášnosť slobodných na Slovensku v pandemickom roku 2020 = Nuptiality of Single Persons in Slovakia in the Pandemic Year 2020. In Slovenská štatistika a demografia, 2022, roč. 32, č. 2, s. 3-18. ISSN 1210-1095. (VEGA č. 2/0064/20 : Pokračujúca transformácia rodinného a reprodukčného správania na Slovensku v časovom a priestorovom aspekte)

        JECK, Tomáš - FILČÁK, Richard - DOKUPILOVÁ, Dušana - POLAČKOVÁ, Zuzana - ŠPROCHA, Branislav. Some Analytical Possibilities of Research of the Level of Mortality for Selected Cancer Diseases in Slovakia. In Prognostické práce : PP (FORESIGHT, ANALYSIS AND RECOMMENDATIONS - FAR) [serial], 2021, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 21-38. ISSN 1338-3590. Dostupné na: https://doi.org/10.31577/PPFAR.2021.13.002 (NFP313010V446 : Integratívna stratégia v rozvoji personalizovanej medicíny vybraných zhubných nádorových ochorení a jej vplyv na kvalitu života)

        SZABÓ, Laura - KISS, Igor - ŠPROCHA, Branislav - SPÉDER, Zsolt. Fertility of Roma Minorities in Central and Eastern Europe. In Comparative Population Studies, 2021, vol. 46, pp. 387-424. (2020: 0.149 - SJR, Q2 - SJR). ISSN 1869-8980. Dostupné na: https://doi.org/10.12765/CPoS-2021-14

        ŠPROCHA, Branislav. Transformácia reprodukčného správania na Slovensku v kohortnom pohľade. Recenzenti: Branislav Bleha, Luděk Šídlo. 1. vyd. Bratislava : INFOSTAT - Výskumné demografické centrum, 2021. 88 s. Dostupné na internete: http://www.infostat.sk/vdc/pdf/2021/Transformacia_reprodukcia_Slovensko_kohortny_pohlad_SPROCHA.pdf. ISBN 978-80-89398-45-4 (VEGA č. 2/0064/20 : Pokračujúca transformácia rodinného a reprodukčného správania na Slovensku v časovom a priestorovom aspekte)

        ŠPROCHA, Branislav - BLEHA, Branislav. Mortality, Health Status and Self-Perception of Health in Slovak Roma Communities. In Social Indicators Research, 2021, vol. 153, no. 3, pp. 1065-1086. (2020: 2.614 - IF, Q2 - JCR, 0.815 - SJR, Q1 - SJR, karentované - CCC). (2021 - Current Contents). ISSN 0303-8300. Dostupné na: https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs11205-020-02533-2

        ŠPROCHA, Branislav - TIŠLIAR, Pavol. Niektoré aspekty nemanželskej plodnosti a detí narodených mimo manželstva na Slovensku = Some Aspects of Extramarital Fertility and Children Born out of Wedlock in Slovakia. In Sociológia - Slovak Sociological Review, 2021, roč. 53, č. 4, s. 339-376. (2020: 0.537 - IF, Q4 - JCR, 0.246 - SJR, Q3 - SJR, karentované - CCC). (2021 - Current Contents). ISSN 0049-1225. Dostupné na: https://doi.org/10.31577/sociologia.2021.53.4.13 (VEGA č. 2/0064/20 : Pokračujúca transformácia rodinného a reprodukčného správania na Slovensku v časovom a priestorovom aspekte)

        ŠPROCHA, Branislav. Pandémia ochorenia COVID-19 v roku 2020 a niektoré charakteristiky úmrtnosti na Slovensku = The COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020 and Some Characteristics of Mortality in Slovakia. In Slovenská štatistika a demografia, 2021, roč. 31, č. 4, s. 59-74. ISSN 1210-1095. (VEGA č. 2/0064/20 : Pokračujúca transformácia rodinného a reprodukčného správania na Slovensku v časovom a priestorovom aspekte sobášnosti na národnej a regionálnej úrovni na Slovensku = Census results and historical development of marriage timing at the national and regional level in Slovakia. In Forum Statisticum Slovacum : recenzovaný vedecký časopis / scientific peer-reviewed journal, 2021, roč. XVII, č. 2, s. 52-61. ISSN 1336-7420. Dostupné na internete: http://www.ssds.sk/casopis/archiv/2021/fss0221_105.pdf

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