Data Classification Technologies in Assessing the Level of Sustainable Development of Territories

Achievement of sustainable development goals is one of the urgent tasks both for an individual country and for its territory. The aim of the study is to develop a statistical methodology for monitoring and comprehensive assessment of sustainable development of the territory. The authors used open data of Rosstat and UN data as the information base of the study. Approbation of the proposed monitoring system was carried out on the object, including territories of different hierarchy levels: countries of the world, federal districts and regions of the Russian Federation.

The methodology is presented in the form of an algorithm containing the following stages of research: selection of the object of observation, formation of a system of indicators of sustainable development of the territory, assessment of the level of sustainable development of the territory and complex analysis on its basis (calculation of the integral indicator, typology of territories, factor analysis, dynamics and forecasting, identification of new objects of observation by type of sustainable development) and development of recommendations to improve the level of sustainable development of a particular territory. The integral indicator of sustainable development of the territory is defined as the average value of indices for the three spheres of sustainability (social, economic, environmental). The authors propose to calculate the indices using the technology of multidimensional average for an array of indicators characterising a separate sphere of sustainable development of the territory.

The paper calculates indices for the spheres of sustainable development and an integral indicator for 2010, 2015 and 2020. As part of the analysis, a typology of the world countries (2010, 2015 and 2020) and territories of the Russian Federation (2011, 2016 and 2021) by the level of sustainable development was carried out; a neural network and discriminant function for the identification of new objects of observation by the type of sustainable development were constructed; a modified matrix of portfolio analysis of the subjects of the Russian Federation for 2021 was performed as part of the typology. Conclusions and proposals regarding the development strategies of the considered territorial entities are made.

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