THE ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE OF CROATIAN CITIES – STATISTICAL ANALYSIS

This paper presents a statistical analysis of fundamental economic (municipal and
firm level) indicators of Croatian cities. The analysis is conducted on a sample of 91 cities,
whereby the emphasis is being placed both on fiscal position of individual municipal
administrations and business results of entrepreneurs doing business in those municipalities.
The focus is also placed on differences in economic indicators stemming from size
of the cities, the distribution of the cities in larger regional units and dominant political
party in a city. The analysis applies Leven test for homogeneity of variance, ANOVA, and
Sheffe post hoc-test. The results suggest that there are statistically significant differences
in municipal economic indicators, where the most persistent differentiation stems from
differences in the share of tax revenues in total revenues. Other detected differences are
related to small and big cities, and between cities in Northwest and Continental Croatia
when compared to the rest of the country.