THE IMPORTANCE OF STATISTICS FOR CRISIS MANAGEMENT

The security on the European Union territory is influenced by various elements such as: climate, nature, and society and their crisis events. The global warming phenomenon is responsible for increasing number of disastrous floods, fires, storms, or extremely high and long lasting heats lacerating lots of EU members. The health and lives of European population are also threaten by human initiated activities. These are industrial breakdowns and road accidents as well as war conflicts and terrorists attacks on Ukrainian Russian borderland, in Syria, Libya, and Afghanistan or in Eritrea. By its negative causes: mass illegal and non-controlled migration are affected not only Greece, Turkey, Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, Austria, Germany and Scandinavia but also all EU Member States including the Slovak Republic. Almost one million of migrants in 2015 forms a mass of war refugees, economic migrants and infiltrated terrorists, who represent the biggest menace for Europe. The terrorist attacks in Paris prove the importance of fight against terrorism and preservation of Schengen borders to protect the European territory and its citizens. The authors of the paper analyse the importance of statistical data provided in the Slovak Republic which can be used as a basis for measurements and comparison of objective component of the security in county districts. They point at present situation of using statistical data by crisis management bodies of public administration. At the same time, they identify gaps in application system of accessible data that can serve as a basis for decision making process in prevention phases within crisis management of county districts. Final part of the paper presents some proposals of solutions to increase the statistical data assimilation in crisis management of public administration not only in the Slovak Republic but also on European territory.