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Changes in the social situation in EU countries during COVID‐19 (an alternative approach to the assessment of social indicators)

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This contribution focuses on research on the social impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic, more specifically on unemployment, income, and poverty in 2020. The indicators selected to measure these phenomena are suitable for understanding and explaining social changes related to and linked to the COVID‐19 pandemic, and represent scientifically reliable, verified, and suitable indicators for evaluating and monitoring the differentiated impact and impacts of the pandemic on individual EU countries. The goal of the paper was to determine how the pandemic—or measures against the spread of the virus—affected the targeted social phenomena. The boxplot method was used to capture the dynamics of changes in the values of selected indicators, and the synthetic variable construction method was used to classify countries’ overall vulnerability/resilience. The results of the ordered country classification explicitly showed the significantly differentiated impacts of the pandemic on the observed phenomena and the changes in the overall social situation in individual countries. Esta contribución se centra en la investigación sobre las repercusiones sociales de la pandemia de COVID‐19, más concretamente sobre el desempleo, los ingresos y la pobreza en 2020. Los indicadores seleccionados para medir estos fenómenos son adecuados para comprender y explicar los cambios sociales relacionados y vinculados a la pandemia de COVID‐19, y representan indicadores científicamente fiables, verificados y adecuados para evaluar y dar seguimiento al impacto diferenciado y a las repercusiones de la pandemia en cada uno de los países de la UE. El objetivo del artículo fue determinar cómo afectó la pandemia, o las medidas contra la propagación del virus, a los fenómenos sociales estudiados. Se utilizó el método de gráficos de caja para captar la dinámica de los cambios en los valores de los indicadores seleccionados, y el método de construcción de variables sintéticas para clasificar la vulnerabilidad y resiliencia en general de los países. Los resultados de la clasificación ordenada por países mostraron explícitamente los impactos significativamente diferenciados de la pandemia sobre los fenómenos observados y los cambios en la situación social en general de cada país. 本稿は、COVID‐19のパンデミックの社会的影響、特に2020年の失業、所得、貧困に関する研究に焦点を当てる。以上の現象を測定するために選択した指標は、COVID‐19のパンデミックに関連する、及び結びついている社会的な変化を解明し、説明するのに適しており、それぞれの影響とEU加盟国各国に対するパンデミックの影響を評価および監視するための、科学的な信頼性があり、妥当性が検証された、適切な指標である。本稿の目的は、パンデミック、あるいはウイルスの拡散に対する措置が、対象となる社会現象にどのような影響を与えたかを明確にすることである。選択された指標の値の変化の動態を捉えるためにボックスプロット法を使用し、国全体の脆弱性/回復力を分類するために合成変数を構築する方法を用いた。順序を付けた国の分類の結果から、観察された現象と個々の国におけるパンデミックがもたらした全体的な社会状況の変化による、顕著に差別化された影響が明確に示された。

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  • Anton Michálek, 2023. "Changes in the social situation in EU countries during COVID‐19 (an alternative approach to the assessment of social indicators)," Regional Science Policy & Practice, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 15(8), pages 1841-1863, October.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:rgscpp:v:15:y:2023:i:8:p:1841-1863
    DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12683
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