STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF REGIONAL DIFFERENTIATION BY LEVEL OF DEVELOPMENT OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND MASS SPORTS
Support for optimal physical activity throughout the life of every citizen is of great importance in improving the health of the population, increasing life expectancy and its quality level. The creation of conditions that provide an opportunity to lead a healthy lifestyle on the territory of any subject of the Russian Federation is designated as the goal of state policy. As a tool to support management decision-making, it is proposed to use multidimensional statistical methods to assess the differences between regions in terms of the level of development of physical education and mass sports in them. To characterize the state of development of physical education and mass sports in the regions and in their municipalities, we propose systems of indicators that reflect the physical activity of the population, the availability of personnel, sports infrastructure and financial resources in the regions. With the help of cluster analysis, a multidimensional grouping was carried out, which allowed us to determine regions with similar characteristics. For analysis of regional conditions of development of physical education and sports and evaluation of differentiation of municipalities by level of development an integral index is used, whose value was determined as the successive imposing baseline that allowed to identify groups of areas with different levels based on the method of statistical groupings.