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Zastosowanie metod statystycznej analizy wielowymiarowej do badania struktury wydatków gospodarstw domowych
Applying methods of multidimentional statistical analysis for studying the structure of household expenses

Author(s): Elżbieta Badach
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Szkoła Główna Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego w Warszawie
Keywords: households budget; classification; method of average means

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the study was to show the analogy in the changes in the structure of household expenses in the chosen EU countries and Poland between1988 and 2009. The direction and pace of the changes in the budgets of Polish households can be predicted by using the principle of analogy. Classification of the objects has been carried out based on the modified kmeans method. Three classes of similarities have been distinguished. The structure of Polish households budgets from 2004 – 2008 has turned out the most similar to the structure of the expenses of Portuguese households from 1988 – 2005.

  • Issue Year: XIII/2012
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 29-35
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Polish