Classifying Syrian provinces according to householder spending using cluster analysis


Abstract in English

This study aims to determine the difference of householder spending values between the Syrian provinces. It also aims to find out which of the components and the various items of expenditure, that contributed significantly to the occurrence of this difference and disparity between provinces , where cluster analysis method was used to find out this difference and classification . The most important results that have been reached: The result of cluster analysis is that there are three groups of Syrian provinces , the first group included the provinces of high householder spending such as Damascus province , the second group included the provinces of medium householder spending such as: Rural Damascus , Homs , Tartus , Lattakia , Al-Sweida , Daraa , Al – Quneitra . The third group included the provinces of low householder spending such as: Hama , Idleb , Aleppo , Al-Rakka , Deir-ez-Zor , Al-Hasakeh . Accordingly , that most important components and variables of householder spending, which contributed to the classification of the Syrian provinces of homogeneous groups are spending on housing , spending on education , spending on health , spending on transport and communications .

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أبو بكر , عيد أحمد , تطوير التحليل المالي بالأساليب الكمية للتنبؤ بالأزمات المالية في شركات التأمين على الحياة بالتطبيق على سوق التأمين المصري , جامعة بني سويف , مصر, 2008

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