Spatial Analysis of Income Poverty and Social Exclusion in European Union - 28 in 2014
Spatial Analysis of Income Poverty and Social Exclusion in European Union - 28 in 2014

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to compare the conditions of income poverty and social exclusion in the European Union – 28 member countries in 2014 in terms of 3 dimensions: income poverty and income inequality, material deprivation and labour market exclusion. Each dimension is mapped by means of several indicators, majority of which is used for monitoring progress of Europe 2020 strategy in the area of poverty and social exclusion. Due to correlations among the indicators, we used factor analysis to create mutually independent factors determined by several source indicators. The factors characterize the particular dimensions, and serve as a basis for a cluster analysis used in the article, in order to gain relatively homogeneous clusters of European Union - 28 countries in terms of income poverty and social exclusion, while countries of various clusters would significantly differ in one or more dimensions. Regarding the observed dimensions, the resulting findings provide a rather comprehensive view of the conditions of poverty and social exclusion in the European Union. The paper puts emphasis on the visualisation of results obtained by statistical methods, therefore, the analyses were carried out by means of SAS JMP.

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