Ratings of Territories — A Tool of Complex Statistical Analysis (Information Aspect)

Abstract

Building ratings of territorial entities both within the countries in line with their administrative-territorial division, patterns, economic, historic, social, ethnic or religious relationships, environmental features; and also when comparing individual countries and their coalitions to date is a very urgent problem, the solution of which allows for selective estimation of the level of socio-economic, political and ecological status of the territories, as well as comparing them with the unity of the methodological approaches to the assessment of the territories, and also explore the changes over time of this state or condition while maintaining comparability of the sample data on a single ranking methodology with the set of indicators. Ratings can be used as the indicators of «response» for the territorial entities and their population in the ongoing transformation of the management bodies of the territories as an integral component of their monitoring system of socio-economic, political and environmental conditions and development. The article discusses the issues of information management provision for the building of territory rating; the article also provides a scorecard to building territory ratings within a country as well as for external comparisons. The article defnes the development prospects of this methodological approach to building rankings of territories as well as the scope of such ratings.