ASSESSMENT OF SELECTED AREAS OF SPORT IN EU COUNTRIES
ASSESSMENT OF SELECTED AREAS OF SPORT IN EU COUNTRIES

Summary/Abstract: Sport is an important sector of economicactivity and is closely linked to other areas of the servicesector (culture, education, tourism, recreation and leisuretime). The aim of the study is evaluation of selected areasof sport in the EU countries with focus on economicmatters of sport and areas associated with thedevelopment of sports services. This study makes use ofmultivariate methods (factor analysis and cluster analysis).The results of the factor analysis, based on the assessedfactors in sports focused on economic matters in sportand development of sports services have shown that, withexceptions, the EU countries vary in their sport policies.The most notable differences in terms of the evaluatedareas of sport have been found in Performing PhysicalActivities and Employment in Sport. The findings on theevaluated areas of sports, received by use of clusteranalysis, the K-means method, show that despite markeddifferences in sport policies, partial similarities can befound between certain groups of countries and mutualties to identical sport policy systems. The findings may bebeneficial not only to creators of sport policies in theindividual EU countries but also to other actors in thesport industry and services in both the public and theprivate sectors.

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