Statistically Positioning of Countries in the Context of Happy Planet Index Data

Authors : Sevda GÜRSAKAL, Dilek MURAT

Pages : 2497-2510

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Publication Date : 2018-12-31

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Abstract: In the present study, the Happy Planet Index insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(HPI); 2016 data was analyzed for the EU, OECD and MENA countries, and the relative positions of these countries were attempted to be determined. Furthermore, the study aimed to determine the position of Turkey with respect to these countries. Statistical analysis results demonstrated that Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey, Hungary, Latvia, Portugal, Lithuania and Slovakia were similar EU countries based on the HPI variables, while Norway, Switzerland, Sweden, Iceland, Netherlands, Canada, Finland and Australia were the most similar countries among the OECD nations. In the analysis conducted for MENA countries, it was determined that Palestine, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Iran, Syria and Tunisia were the most similar countries, while Zambia was the most different country. In the analysis conducted for both EU and OECD countries, it was found that the most divergent country was Luxembourg, and Zambia was the most different country among MENA countries, and the most significant source of this difference was the ecological footprint variable. Turkey was similar to Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Latvia, Mexico, Algeria and Lebanon in the Euclidean Distance Model graphs, thus, it was concluded that Turkey exhibited similar characteristics with the abovementioned countries based on the scrutinized variables.
Keywords : Happy Planet Index, Multivariate Statistical Method, Multidimensional Scaling Analysis