The article focuses on the economic situation of households in the Czech Republic. It discusses the factors the material deprivation rate and related indicators. These factors include household equipment, other indicators of financial possibilities and inability to pay regular payments on time....

Questionnaire survey data are usually characterized by a great amount of ordinal variables. For multivariate analysis, it is suitable to reduce task dimensionality. The aim of this paper is a comparison of the results obtained by the analysis of data files with ordinal variables using selected...