Zastosowanie uogólnionej miary odległości GDM oraz metody TOPSIS do oceny poziomu rozwoju społeczno-gospodarczego powiatów województwa wielkopolskiego
Application of Generalised Distance Measure and TOPSIS Method to Evaluate the Level of Socioeconomic Development of Powiats in Wielkopolska Province

Summary/Abstract: The paper aims to evaluate the level of socioeconomic development of powiats (i.e. second level administrative units) in Wielkopolska province. With this purpose in mind a synthetic feature was utilized that aggregates simple features: partial indicators of socioeconomic development. The procedure of designing this feature used the generalized distance measure GDM to compute the distance from the ideal and anti-ideal points (Walesiak 1993, 2011), and TOPSIS method to aggregate the features (Hwang, Yoon 1981, Wysocki 2010).The measure of Walesiak (1993) facilitates calculating distances between features described on different scale types: ordinal, interval, or ratio, while TOPSIS is the standard method for aggregation of features. Proposed approach allows evaluating the level of socioeconomic development of powiats when expressed through simple features, both metric and ordinal.The evaluation process made use of the data gathered from the survey conducted in the powiat offices of the Wielkopolska province: “The present state and development potential of the powiats of Wielkopolska” (2000) and from the Local Data Bank of the Central Statistical Office report of 2010.

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