Assessment of selected areas of sport in EU countries
Vol. 17, No 4, 2024
Martina Halaskova
Moravian Business College Olomouc, Department of Economics and Innovation, Olomouc, Czech Republic E-mail: martina.halaskova@mvso.cz ORCID 0000-0002-6812-6158
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Assessment of selected areas of sport in EU countries |
Renata Halaskova
University of Ostrava, Faculty of Education, Department of Technical and Vocational Education, Ostrava, Czech Republic E-mail: renata.halaskova@osu.cz ORCID 0000-0002-2811-2210 Beata Gavurova
Technical University of Košice, Faculty of Mining, Ecology, Process Control and Geotechnologies, Institute of Earth Resources, Košice, Slovak Republic E-mail: beata.gavurova@tuke.sk ORCID 0000-0002-0606-879X Vaclav Friedrich
VSB- Technical University of Ostrava, Faculty of Economics, Department of Mathematical Methods in Economics, Ostrava, Czech Republic E-mail: vaclav.friedrich@vsb.cz ORCID 0000-0003-0076-5233 |
Abstract. Sport is an important sector of economic activity and is closely linked to other areas of the service sector (culture, education, tourism, recreation and leisure time). The aim of the study is evaluation of selected areas of sport in the EU countries with focus on economic matters of sport and areas associated with the development of sports services. This study makes use of multivariate methods (factor analysis and cluster analysis). The results of the factor analysis, based on the assessed factors in sports focused on economic matters in sport and development of sports services have shown that, with exceptions, the EU countries vary in their sport policies. The most notable differences in terms of the evaluated areas of sport have been found in Performing Physical Activities and Employment in Sport. The findings on the evaluated areas of sports, received by use of cluster analysis, the K-means method, show that despite marked differences in sport policies, partial similarities can be found between certain groups of countries and mutual ties to identical sport policy systems. The findings may be beneficial not only to creators of sport policies in the individual EU countries but also to other actors in the sport industry and services in both the public and the private sectors. |
Received: November, 2023 1st Revision: June, 2024 Accepted: December, 2024 |
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DOI: 10.14254/2071-789X.2024/17-4/10 |
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JEL Classification: Z20, L83, C38 |
Keywords: service sector, sport, sporting and recreational services, physical activities, employment in sport, trade in sport, EU countries |