SOCIAL AND SPATIAL DIVERSIFICATION OF SOCIAL EXCLUSION (WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE VOIVODESHIP)

• Authors: Gierańczyk, Wiesława , Leszczyńska, Marzena

Abstracts

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The main cause of social exclusion is poverty, but the authors say thatpoverty is not synonimous with social exclusion. The authors assume that poverty is anessential dimension of social exclusion – perhaps the most important one , which apart fromthe remaining (selected) objective factors, will consist of characteristics social exclusion inPoland,with particular emphasis on the situation in kujawsko-pomorskie voivodship. An article in the theoretical section attempts to sort out the discussion on the issue of social exclusion, the relationship between poverty and social exclusion. Moreover focuses on the measurablefactors illustrating this issue and its spatial differentiation.At the very beginning to the analysis of spatial diversity of social exclusion was the review and selection of diagnostic variables characterizing this problem. Then using linearalignment method, referred as Perkal’s synthetic indicator, was made the classification ofsurveyed voivodships (from the point of view of the obtained indicators of the level of ofthreat to its inhabitants by social exclusion). In addition, as a supplement to Perkal’s syntheticindicato,was used Ward’s agglomeration method.The main part of the article focuses on the subjective analysis of selected factorsconducive to social exclusion. The study assumes that social exclusion is not the same aseconomic scarcity, that’s why were taking into account indicators that cover a wide range ofsocio-economic phenomena, also affecting non-economic aspects of life, including: registeredunemployed persons unemployed for more than 1 year in the total number of unemployedpersons; at risk of relative poverty line; at risk of “legal” poverty rate; at risk of extremepoverty rate; average monthly per capita disposable income in the household; numer ofpersons in families benefiting from social assistance due to poverty per 1000 inhabitants;percentage of dwellings equipped with bathroom; indicator of the test result in lowersecondaryschoolin mathematics and natural science; percentage of children covered by pre-school education.At the end examined subjects were sorted according to the value of Perkal’s index andthe classification of the voivodships was performed. Again particular attention at this stage ofthe analysis was put on the situation of kujawsko-pomorskie voivodship

Keywords

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social exclusion; poverty; voivodship; Perkal’s synthetic indicator; Wardagglomeration method.

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Kujawsko-Pomorskiej Szkoły Wyższej w Bydgoszczy
• Journal: Roczniki Ekonomiczne Kujawsko-Pomorskiej Szkoły Wyższej w Bydgoszczy
• Year: 2018
• Issue: (11)
• Pages: 21-37

Dates

published

2019-02-19

Contributors

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Gierańczyk, Wiesława

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Leszczyńska, Marzena