IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/pes/wpaper/2016no20.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Socio-economic Sustainability in Poland. SEM Analysis at Regional Level

Author

Listed:
  • Michal Bernard Pietrzak

    (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland)

  • Adam P. Balcerzak

    (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland)

Abstract

Improving conditions for sustainable development has been a major aim of every Polish government since the beginning of transformation process. Thus, the aim of the paper is to analyse the level of sustainable development in Poland at re-gional level. The research was conducted at NUTS 3 level for the years 2010-2013. The analysis was based on the data from Central Statistical Office of Poland. It was assumed that the phenomenon of socio-economic sustainability at regional level should be considered as a multivariate latent variable. As a result, it was measured with application of Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The proposed model was based on eight observable variables that are often pointed in the literature as measures of socio-economic development and human welfare. Application of SEM model allowed to verify the usefulness of the observable variables for analysis of the phenomenon of sustainable development in Poland at regional level. The conducted research confirmed serious disparities at regional level in the sphere of socio-economic sustainability that must be the subject of special interest and counteractions of Polish government.

Suggested Citation

  • Michal Bernard Pietrzak & Adam P. Balcerzak, 2016. "Socio-economic Sustainability in Poland. SEM Analysis at Regional Level," Working Papers 20/2016, Institute of Economic Research, revised May 2016.
    • Handle: RePEc:pes:wpaper:2016:no20
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.badania-gospodarcze.pl/images/Working_Papers/2016_No_20.pdf
    File Function: First version, 2016
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Other versions of this item:

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Structural Equation Modeling (SEM); regional analysis; sustainable de-velopment; Poland;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • Q01 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - General - - - Sustainable Development
    • C38 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Classification Methdos; Cluster Analysis; Principal Components; Factor Analysis

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pes:wpaper:2016:no20. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Adam P. Balcerzak (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/ibgtopl.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.