Question from Aleksandar Kostadinov.
Thanks, Julia
Julia Koschinsky, Ph.D.
Executive Director
and Senior Research Associate
Center for Spatial Data Science
University of Chicago
Dears,
Hope this message finds you well. I am approaching you for a help regarding my recent analysis in GeoDa.
Basically, I found significant correlation among Macedonian diaspora and investments in energy efficient buildings back in North Macedonia.
The method summary:
- Percent of energy efficient buildings per municipality in North Macedonia varies a lot among municipalities (some municipalities have buildings with 6% energy efficient facades, some municipalities have 60% of the buildings with energy efficient facade).
- Percent of migrant population living abroad per municipality is correlated positively and significantly with the percent of build energy efficient facades.
This tells us that many Macedonian workers send money back to Macedonia for reconstruction of the houses and use of energy efficient constructions. This in turn creates demand for green jobs and green skills in home countries.
There are also outliers, meaning that those municipalities whose emigrant population is way too high, for example 33% and more are emigrants, do not invest in reconstruction, and possibly will abandon their homes and don't plan to return back to their home
country.
Are there methods to investigate the later statement, what is the cut-off precent of significant emigrant population, and low level of reconstruction? Or maybe some ML models need to be applied?
I have also other variables collected and according Moran's I, seems that there is a spatial clustering. I would like to explore these in a meaningful way with the use of GeoDa.
Thank you very much.
Best regards,
Aleksandar Kostadinov
IDEI-Skopje
Aleksandar Kostadinov
Institute for Digitalization, Economy and Innovation