Spatial differentiation within the structure of standards of living in the EU countries at the time of economic crisis

Abstract

The study evaluates the spatial differentiation in the structure of the standards of living in the EU countries. Typical measures that characterize social and economic processes were employed. They included: infant mortality, share of the pre-productive population, unemployment rate, information technology accessibility, level of scholarization, healthcare accessibility, crime level and suicide mortality. The basic research method involved the procedure of a synthetic measure developed on the basis of score classification.