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The Forum Minority Research Institute 307 Processing and chronological arrangement of data concerning Slovakia’s 2,800 settlements resulted in a system of relevant data, at micro-regional (associations of individual settlements), regional (public administration units: county, district, etc.), and national levels, enabling us to carry out a temporal or spatial comparison, or other analysis of these data. The significant changes that have taken place within the settlements for the past 80 years necessitated an introduction of numerous variables. These changes included the changes of settlements’ names, their place within public administration, their administrative merger or de-merger, etc. In order to follow all these changes within 2,800 settlements, it was necessary to use as much as 30,000 variables, the encoding of which is still in progress. The encoding of the changes of settlements is in compliance with the relevant legal regulations. The database, that is, the list of settlements together with all the related data, when completed, is going to be of great value, since it allows research workers to follow all the changes in the development of settlements. At the same time, collection and processing the particular statistical data of each settlement was also started (population, economic figures, etc.), as well as other specific information obtainable only at the level of a particular settlement (monuments, institutions, municipality, publications, etc.). At present, 26 various databases are being either established or developed. Partner institutions of the Forum Minority Research Centre are: CELODIN - Central European Local Development Information Network Central European University, Budapest Comenius University, Faculty of Political Science, Bratislava COMIR - Consortium of Minority Resources ELTE, UNESCO Minority Studies Department, Budapest Forum Information Centre, Šamorľn
