Wydatki budżetowe miast wojewódzkich a jakość życia ich mieszkańców
Budget expenditure of voivodeship cities and the quality of life of their inhabitants

Summary/Abstract: The study presents the definition and research aspects of quality of life, an interdisciplinarycategory that arouses widespread interest among representatives of various scientific disciplines aswell as state and local government institutions. The main purpose of the work was to examine therelationship between the level of budgetary expenses of a voivodeship city and the quality of life ofits inhabitants. To determine the objective quality of life, quantitative and valuable indicators wereused in the field of: technical infrastructure, labour market, health protection, social welfare, publiceducation / pro-family policy and culture, the level of which depends on the expenditure of localauthorities. Based on data from the Local Data Bank of the Central Statistical Office, a multidimensionalcomparative analysis of voivodeship cities was carried out. Based on the selected diagnosticvariables, a synthetic Perkal index was determined for individual provincial cities in 2019. Themethod used allowed the ranking of provincial cities to be determined in the analysed period of timeand them to be grouped according to the level of quality of life achieved in four typological groups.The conducted research confirmed the existence of significant disproportions in the level of thequality of life of inhabitants of particular voivodeship cities. It was also found that with an increasein budgetary expenditure per capita, the level of quality of life may improve.

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