MEASURING REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT BY STATISTICAL METHODS

Elisabeta R. ROÅžCA ()
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Elisabeta R. ROŞCA: University ‟Stefan cel Mare†of Suceava, Romania

The USV Annals of Economics and Public Administration, 2022, vol. 22, issue 1(35), 149-159

Abstract: The work has as aim the highlighting of the importance of statistics as a science that provides the ensemble of methods and techniques for the study and analysis of regional development. For this, is trying a concrete argument of the role of statistics in the quantification the different aspects of regional development, starting from the comparative analysis of the levels of macroeconomic indicators of results of the Member States of the European Union, whose conclusions can be a good premise for the structuring of the territory on regions of development, a concept specific to regional science. Study of the specialized literature led to several important conclusions, including: in contouring and development of the regional science an important role had sciences as: statistics, econometrics, mathematics, sociology, politology and others, which gives regional science an interdisciplinary character; within the regional science, the regional economy is highlighted due to the wide range of addressed problems, at the three levels of knowledge: economic theory, method and practical applicability; among the methods of analysis used by the regional economy, the statistical methods have an essential importance in knowing the level, qualitative-structural dimensions, dynamics, correlations and interregional and intraregional dependencies among variables a.s.o.; statistics has an essential role in the substantiation of the regional development strategies, in the regional planning, in monitoring the results of the regional development policies a.s.o.; current development of regional science is achieved, not without the contribution of statistics, in directions such as: regional planning, regional forecasting, urban economy, rural economy, land use planning, sustainable spatial development a.s.o. The work presents a comparative analysis of some key-indicators of the regional development, by regions of development in Romania, in 2015 and 2019.

Date: 2022
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