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The article introduces the history of local adaptation and standardization of Beck Depression Inventory together with sociodemographic variables that have a potential to affect its scores. The core of the article consists of the overview of existing studies in which Czech adaptation of the method has been administered to healthy or clinically depressed participants. Resulting descriptives were used in a meta-analysis in order to estimate the properties of population scores. The meta-analysis suggests that the form of administration affects sum scores. Specifically, administration via online questionnaires raises sum scores by more than three points, on average. Even though the form of administration has been controlled for, mean scores and standard deviations among samples were strongly heterogeneous, which complicates the estimation of population scores. Sampling bias and administration context effects are the probable causes of these differences. Due to the strong heterogeneity of mean scores among studies, it is advisable to check for these potential biases in other clinical methods, too. Based on theoretical assumptions and the estimates of population scores, the distribution of population scores has been simulated. This distribution has been used to create cut-off scores for practical use in psychodiagnostics. Lastly, the meta-analytic results are compared with those of international meta-analyses and recommendations for employing Beck Depression Inventory in research and practice are made. The implications of this study are hindered by a low number of studies analyzed, the heterogeneity of scores among studies, and the distribution of scores not being normal.