Comparative Analysis of the Ordering of Polish Provinces in Terms of Social Cohesion
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15678/AOC.2019.2005Keywords:
social cohesion, composite indicators, interval-valued data, multidimensional scaling, R softwareAbstract
The article describes an assessment of the social cohesion of Polish provinces. The assessment was based on classical metric and interval-valued data using a hybrid approach combining multidimensional scaling with linear ordering. In the first step, after applying multidimensional scaling, the objects of interest were represented in a two-dimensional space. In the second step, the objects were linearly ordered based on the Euclidean distance from the pattern object. Interval-valued variables characterize the objects of interests more accurately than do metric data. Classic data are of an atomic nature, i.e. an observation of each variable is expressed as a single real number. By contrast, an observation of each interval-valued variable is expressed as an interval. Interval-valued data were derived by aggregating classic metric data on social cohesion at the level of districts to the province level. The article describes a comparative analysis of the results of an assessment of the social cohesion of Polish provinces based on classical metric data and interval-valued data.
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