| Summary: | 碩士 === 輔仁大學 === 應用統計學研究所 === 89 === The ultimate purpose of raising competitiveness is to enhance the quality of life and provide an attractive environment of society to people. The trend of globalization and the forming of regional market break national boundaries into region. Regional competitiveness turns to be the foundation of national competitiveness and there, it is, by utilizing the unique resources, culture, and industrial development factors, to promote the regional economic growth, the welfare of people, the quality of life, and sustainable development of the environment.
The purpose of constructing regional competitiveness indicator system is to provide objective and fair regional competitiveness evaluation through the indicator system, which disaggregate the complex and vague concept of competitiveness and evaluating it by the basis or the strength that raises the competitiveness. By integrating the regional competitiveness basis, which are also the well-being factors and sustainable development factors, we construct our regional competitiveness indicator system list, which contains six main concerns, which are: social security, social welfare, medical treatment and health, education and culture, environmental protection, and government services. And the development of indicators are based and selected by these six concerns’ related theories and evaluating methods. The system is built of 72 indicators, which includes 60 social indicators and 12 survey Indicators.
The evaluation of regional competitiveness is through the output of each concerns’ single index and by the cluster analysis method, integrates these outputs to gain the whole regional competitiveness evaluating results. The construction of single index takes concern of different indicator properties and separately conducts “social indicator evaluation” by the principle component analysis method and “survey indicator evaluation” by computing average. And finally weighted these two items, sum up to gain these single index results. The whole regional competitiveness evaluation, by the classifying results, the three regional competitiveness clusters of Taiwan are named as “ The leading group”, “ The developing group” and “ The unpolluted and lower development group”. The competitiveness leading counties gain great performance in medical treatment and health, education and culture, and the social welfare but rather the social security and environmental protection. On the other hand, counties with low economic development performing good environmental protection and social security but rather other concerns. Governments should balance the development of these regional competitiveness bases to raise higher competitiveness performance and as a whole, promote the national competitiveness progresses.
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