Using Correlation Analysis to Determine Relationships between Sustainable Development Goal Indicators

The article proposes to measure sustainability by a single super criterion, the purpose of which affects the criteria of sustainability in the field of social, economic and environmental spheres. The third level is represented by 17 groups of indicators, the fulfilment of which is necessary to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. At the fourth level, these 17 groups are divided into 176 independent indicators. Of these, a group of statistically significant indicators of the Sustainable Development Goals has been identified. The indicators of this group were normalized, and then checked for normality. A correlation matrix of indicators of the SDG was compiled, which were divided into two groups depending on the nature of the relationship between the indicators-positive or negative. For these groups, the main characteristics were calculated-the average value of the correlation coefficient, the lower quartile, the upper quartile, the minimum and maximum values, and distribution density graphs were plotted.