Research of Youth Sports in the Russian Federation as a Factor of Human Capital Formation Using Neural Networks
With the use of neural network modeling, the authors analyzed the current state of youth sports in rural areas of Russian regions, which characterizes human capital. The simulation uses neural networks implemented in the Deductor package – self-organizing Kohonen maps. As a result of the analysis, the authors obtained a distribution of regions in five clusters. The composition and characteristics of each cluster are presented. The regions with the highest indicators of sports development in rural areas have been identified. This paper shows the influence of the indicators considered on human capital, which is one of the dominant internal factors of socio-economic potential of territories. The results of the research are of practical significance for a comparative analysis of the development of children’s and youth sports in the regions of Russia and can be taken into account in the strategic planning of the development of the sports industry in the context of increasing the quality of human capital.