integral coefficient of development of the business environment from 0.730 to 0.250.
Received 5 clusters for regions, demonstrating respectively: high, moderate, medium,
low, the lowest level of development. The names of clusters proposed by the author do
not bear a separate semantic load, but they focus attention on the belonging of a certain
region to a group with a similar level of development of the business environment
among the general sample:
cluster 1 - more than 0.410 - high development of the business environment;
cluster 2 - 0.390-0.409 - moderate development of the business environment;
cluster 3 - 0.370-0.389 - average development of the business environment;
cluster 4 - 0,350-0,369 - low development of the business environment;
cluster 5 - less than 0.349 - the lowest development of the business environment.
The results of clustering regions for 2016 are presented in Table 2.
Table 2 Clusterization of the regions of Ukraine according to the level of
business development environment in 2016 year
Index of development of the business environment of the region in 2016 (InDBER)
Level of development
of the BE (clusters)
Region
InDBER
High
Kyiv (city)
0.736
Lviv
0.417
Kievskaya
0.412
Moderate
Kharkiv
0.405
Dnipropetrovsk
0.402
Chernivtsi
0.396
Vinnitsa
0.394
Volyn region
0.392
Ivano-Frankivsk
0.391
Average
Khmelnitsky
0,388
Kirovograd
0,383
Cherkassy
0.381
Poltava
0,378
Nikolaev
0,376
Zaporozhye
0.374
Ternopil
0.372
Low
Zakarpattia
0.369
Zhytomyr
0.367
Kherson
0.367
Sumy
0.362
Odessa
0.355
Rivne
0.350
The lowest
Chernihiv
0.333
Lugansk
0.314
Donetsk
0.254
Source: calculated by the author
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