<abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Tourist activity and travel constitute the function of the people's quality of life and indicate the level of civilizational development of the country. Tourism of young people has its separate, specific place in the trends in contemporary tourism. Students constitute a social group that has substantial free time resources at hand, and therefore, form one of the most touristically active society groups. This articles aims at analyzing tourist activity of Szczecin universities students, and in particular, in detecting the relations between the variables characterizing their holiday. Simple statistic methods in the field of structure analysis and multidimensional correspondence analysis were used as a scientific tool. The <italic>Correspondence Analysis</italic> module of STATISTICA 8.0 package was used for the purpose of calculations and graphic presentation.</p></abstract>

Tourist activity and travel constitute the function of the people's quality of life and indicate the level of civilizational development of the country. Tourism of young people has its separate, specific place in the trends in contemporary tourism. Students constitute a social group that has substantial free time resources at hand, and therefore, form one of the most touristically active society groups. This articles aims at analyzing tourist activity of Szczecin universities students, and in particular, in detecting the relations between the variables characterizing their holiday. Simple statistic methods in the field of structure analysis and multidimensional correspondence analysis were used as a scientific tool. The Correspondence Analysis module of STATISTICA 8.0 package was used for the purpose of calculations and graphic presentation.

The Use of the Correspondence Analysis in the Research of the Tourist Activity of University Students

Department of Application of Mathematics in Economics Faculty of Economics, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin Janickiego 31, 71-101 Szczecin

Folia Oeconomica Stetinensia

Tourist activity and travel constitute the function of the people's quality of life and indicate the level of civilizational development of the country....

The Use of the Correspondence Analysis in the Research of the Tourist Activity of University Students

Publié en ligne: 14 oct. 2010

Pages: 7 - 18

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10031-009-0008-4

Mots clés
tourist activity, multiple correspondence analyses, Ward method

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The Use of the Correspondence Analysis in the Research of the Tourist Activity of University Students

Publié en ligne: 14 oct. 2010

Pages: 7 - 18

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10031-009-0008-4

Mots cléstourist activity, multiple correspondence analyses, Ward method

This content is open access.

Mots clés
tourist activity, multiple correspondence analyses, Ward method