Porównanie województw w Polsce na podstawie rozkładu dochodu rozporządzalnego per capita
Comparison of Polish voivodships on the basis of distributions of disposable income per capita

Summary/Abstract: In the article the degree of similarity between distributions of disposable income per capita in Polish voivodships was determined. The similarity of distributions was measured by metric D and the more similar two distributions were, the smaller value the statistic D had. The classification procedure that was carried out resulted in forming two one-element groups – with the Mazovian voivodship and the Podkarpackie voivodship - one four-elements group with the Lower Silesian, Lubuskie, Opole, Silesian voivodships and one group with remaining ten voivodships. For each of the four separated classes the average disposable income per capita was calculated and the variability within groups was determined. Then the dispersion of income between groups was analysed. The study indicated that in the structure of variance calculated for the entire statistical sample examined the intergroup variance represents only a few percent, and the rest – that is, more than ninety percent – is the average intragroup variance. This allowed to formulate the final conclusion that the average differences in income between households belonging to identified groups A, B, C and D are much larger than the differences between the average values of income of households belonging to different groups.

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