Relative changes in the level of dwelling stock as well as in technical and sanitary appliances of flats in rural areas of the Wielkopolskie voivodship

Abstract

The aim of the research was to assess the scale of disparities of dwelling stock as well as technical and sanitary appliances of rural dwellings in the Wielkopolskie voivodship in the years 2004—2015. It was conducted on the basis of data describing selected diagnostic features derived from the CSO Local Data Bank. One of the dynamic methods of relative taxonomy based on the construction of synthetic measure using spatial median of Weber was applied to examine such a complex phenomenon. On the basis of the measure, four relative typological classes were distinguished with different levels of dwelling stock development and technical and sanitary appliances in rural areas in the Wielkopolskie voivodship according to the profile of powiats. The greatest relative advantage over the remaining classes had the powiat of Poznań and three powiats located in the southern and western part of the voivodship. The largest relative delay characterised powiats located mostly in the eastern and northern part of the voivodship. The applied method allowed to classify the examined units in a given period and to observe changes in the value of a synthetic variable over time. The construction of synthetic feature was based on the relativised value of diagnostic features included in the research.