Przestrzenny taksonomiczny miernik rozwoju
Spatial taxonomic measure of development

Summary/Abstract: The nature and level of the analyzed variables are not only the result of the passage of time, the structure of the economy and geographical conditions of the region but also the location and the neighborhood of other regions. Until now, an aspect of the spatial interactions in form a matrix of spatial weights, was not included in any of the formula synthetic measure. This paper proposes a taxonomy spatial measure of development which allows simultaneous analyzes in three dimensions as follows: time, section and space. The modification of classical measurement consisted in introduction of the spatial weights matrix elements to the formula of the classical Hellwig development measure (formerly verifying the existence of the phenomenon of spatial autocorrelation on the basis of Moran I statistics). Then, an application of the proposed tool was prepared to study the level of development of Polish regions in 2000 as well as 2010.

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