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The measurement of human development using the Ward method of cluster analysis.

MAJEROVÁ, Ingrid and Jan NEVIMA

Basic information

Original name

The measurement of human development using the Ward method of cluster analysis.

Authors

MAJEROVÁ, Ingrid (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Jan NEVIMA (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Journal of International Studies, 2017, 2071-8330

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Article in a journal

Field of Study

50202 Applied Economics, Econometrics

Country of publisher

Poland

Confidentiality degree

is not subject to a state or trade secret

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RIV identification code

RIV/47813059:19520/17:00010895

Organization unit

School of Business Administration in Karvina

Keywords in English

cluster analysis; GDP per capita; human development; life expectancy at birth; lifelong education; NUTS II regions; tertiary education; Visegrad Group Plus
Changed: 7/2/2020 10:57, RNDr. Daniel Jakubík

Abstract

V originále

The Human Development Index is one of the methods how to measure human development. It measures the level of human development both in the economic and social field. Human development is studied at the national level in most cases, yet it might be used at the regional level of a country, too. The objective of the article is to describe the potential for human development in the NUTS II regions of the Visegrad Group Plus countries (the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and Austria and Slovenia) using the cluster analysis. The research was carried out in the period from 2004 to 2013. Initially, a research hypothesis regarding the dynamization of the human development processes in most of the regions was set, moving from a lower to a higher development potential within three groups. This hypothesis was verified by a hierarchy cluster analysis in the Ward method and was not confirmed.