Assessment of the social exclusion at the regional level using multi-criteria approach: evidence from the Czech Republic

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Result on the web

<a href="http://economic-research.pl/Journals/index.php/eq/article/view/1863/1747" target="_blank" >http://economic-research.pl/Journals/index.php/eq/article/view/1863/1747</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.24136/eq.2021.003" target="_blank" >10.24136/eq.2021.003</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Assessment of the social exclusion at the regional level using multi-criteria approach: evidence from the Czech Republic

Original language description

Research background: Social services are the main social tool used for the prevention and solution of social exclusion and its risk. Services of social prevention are focused on the well-being of the whole society and they prevent it from the influence of a wide range of socio-economic phenomena related to social exclusion, understood in multidimensional terms. Purpose of the article: The purpose of the paper is to evaluate districts of the Czech Republic with respect to selected socio-economic factors that lead or can lead to social exclusion, when the emphasis is placed on the exclusion of children and youth, and to identify the causes of differ-ences existing among these districts within the period of years 2011-2016. Methods: The paper focuses on multi-criterial assessment of districts of the Czech Republic using 23 indicators covering main aspects of social exclusion, which are processed with the Tech-nique of Order Preference Similarity to the Ideal Solution (TOPSIS technique) in combination with the Coefficient of Variance method used to determine the indicators&apos; weight. The results obtained using these methods are completed by the Moran&apos;s index, Shapiro-Wilk test, Mann-Whitney test, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, Kendall Rank Coefficient and Levene&apos;s test. Findings &amp; value added: A small number of districts with very negative assessment, with the presence of social exclusion and its higher risk, respectively, are identified. Differences among regions are constant and could not be assigned to randomness or disposable changes in the struc-ture of indicators. Higher number of children born to unmarried mothers can be considered a typical aspect of the districts with higher risk of the social exclusion. The methods applied in theresearch, whose results and findings are presented in the paper, can be inspiring to further studies focusing on the social exclusion in its multidimensionality. The research is framed with the Euro-pean Union discourse of social exclusion, thus the presented findings also open space for the comparisons and discussions of the factors associated with the social exclusion in other European Union Member States.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

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

2021

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Equilibrium-Quarterly Journal of Economics and Economic Policy

ISSN

1689-765X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

16

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

28

Pages from-to

75-102

UT code for WoS article

000665821500003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85109209437