The application of cluster analysis in measurement of human development.

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The application of cluster analysis in measurement of human development.

Original language description

A lot of methods of measurement were designed for comparison of human development. The most popular is the Human Development Index (HDI), which has been used since 1990. This index measures the level of human development not only by GDP per capita, but also trough the indicators of education and healthy life. The differences in the level of human development are observed not only at the national level, they are also measured at the regional level of countries. The aim of this article is, with the quantification of regional human development, to describe the potential for human development using cluster analysis at the regional level. The regions of the Visegrad Group Plus countries (the countries of Visegrad Group - Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the countries of Regional Partnership Agreement, Austria and Slovenia) at NUTS II level were selected for this purpose. There are 46 regions on the NUTS II level - eight in the Czech Republic, seven in Hungary, sixteen in Polan d, nine in Austria, four in Slovakia and two in Slovenia. The research was made in the period from 2004 to 2013. In the selection of indicators, the same approaches as by the HDI were adopted, however the components of each dimension were modified. Life expectancy at birth (dimension of health), tertiary educated people and lifelong learning (dimension of education) and GDP per capita in PPS (dimension of living standards) have been chosen as indicators of human development. These components were than used in a hierarchy cluster analysis in the Ward method. Three clusters were created with different levels of development potential (from below-average potential to above-average one). Initially, a research hypothesis that there was a dynamization of human development processes in most regions has been set. Namely, it was assumed that more than half of monitored regions in the lower group of potential to human development will shift to the higher group. This hypothesis was not confirmed.

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Proceedings of 4th Conference STRATEGICA, Opportunities and Risks in the Contemporary Business Environment.

ISBN

978-80-88064-25-1

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e-ISSN

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Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

110-121

Publisher name

SNSPA

Place of publication

BUCHAREST

Event location

BUCHAREST

Event date

Oct 20, 2016

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

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