Spatially Integrated Social Research and Official Statistics: Methodological Remarks and Empirical Results on Local Development

• Authors: Włodzimierz Okrasa
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper aims to elucidate some aspects of confluence of thedevelopments in modern methods of spatial analysis and in the public statistics’data generating processes, along with empirical illustration of theseinterconnections from the development policy evaluation standpoint. Especially,how the growing availability of data at the finest level of territorial division(such as commune/gmina-level data within the Local Data Bank system) mayimprove decisional processes at the regional and local level, while payingspecial attention to allocation of resources assuming geographic system oftargeting public support or intervention. Three interrelated questions that areempirically treated in the context of both β-convergence and σ-convergence issues at the local level involve (i) measurement of the level of local(under)development /local deprivation; (ii) assessment of how responsive andequitable are distributive policies in the domain of area-addressed publicresources; and (iii) evaluation of their impacts in terms of convergence andsocial cohesion, which are among chief objectives of development policy(especially in the ‘new’ EU member states).

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Comparative Economic Research. Central and Eastern Europe
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 191-206

Dates

published

2012-12-01

online

2013-03-08

Contributors

author

Włodzimierz Okrasa

• Ph.D, Professor at the University of Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski in Warsaw, Central Statistical Office of Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10103-012-0035-5