Effectiveness of forms of professional activisation by voivodships

Abstract

The objective of the article is the assessment of the diversity of voivodships with respect to values of cost and employment effectiveness of basic forms of professional activation, implemented by the powiat labour offices in the years 2008—2016. The data source were the publications of The Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy. The k-means method was used for clustering. In the analysed period it can be observed that the coefficients of cost (except for substantial decline in 2011) and employment effectiveness had an increasing trend. The three homogeneous groups of voivodships were obtained. The first group consisted of voivodships with the most advantageous values of effectiveness, the second one — with the average values of effectiveness and the third one — the most disadvantageous.