The educational and cultural ranking of Lower Silesian cities

The educational and cultural dimension is a multivariate category, characterized by many attributes (e.g. number of students and academic teachers, educational institutions, library readers, library borrowers and visitors to the museums, etc.). This means the possibility of perceiving regions as objects of multidimensional statistical analysis, and ordering them according to a certain criterion. The paper presents the similarities and differences between selected cities of the Lower Silesia region with a population of over 30,000 inhabitants in the educational and cultural scope. For this purpose, a set of diagnostic variables (stimulants and destimulants) was defined. This allowed specifying the most and least differences between the surveyed objects and consequently the order of the cities from the best city to the worst one. Finally, this allowed the creation of the educational and cultural ranking of Lower Silesian cities