Economic security of Polish Voivodeships. Measuring the concept
Economic security of Polish Voivodeships. Measuring the concept

Summary/Abstract: Background: Economic security is currently considered as relevant aspect of every economy functioning. It can be stated that measuring its level is a kind of holistic approach to studying the national economy. Research purpose: The aim of this article is to measure the level of economic security in Pol¬ish regions using both, a general approach as well as a more detailed one, considering selected economic dimensions, such as economic growth, wage growth, social security, food quality and environmental balance. Methods: The paper considers Perkal’s method to be the best taxonomic technique for construct¬ing synthetic indicators and used it to do so. Conclusions: The calculated synthetic indicators facilitates a linear ordering of the Polish Voivodeships in terms of economic security. Not only are Polish regions diversified relative to the general level of economic security, but also to the level of economic security according to several selected dimensions. What is more, it was possible to determine linear correlation coefficients between the indicator of general economic security and its measurement level in the selected dimensions. Social, economic and financial dimensions have the most significant impact on deter¬mining general economic security

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