Identification of the Level of Effectiveness of Activity at Engineering Enterprises of the Kharkiv Region

The article studies effectiveness of activity of engineering enterprises of the Kharkiv region using the method of cluster analysis with the use of the tree-like clusterisation and k-averages, which allowed obtaining consistent results. 23 economic objects were divided into 5 clusters: with a very high, high, middle, low and very low levels of effectiveness of activity. Moreover, the first and fifth clusters include only 1 enterprise each (PJSC FED and OJSC Lozova Car Repair Plant respectively), and the majority of enterprises were in the middle cluster, which reflects the normal law of distribution. As regards influence of indicators upon the level of effectiveness, the article identifies a priority influence upon distribution of enterprises by personnel profitability and average influence upon profitability of own capital and profitability of operation activity, which reflects contribution of each of the variables into the common level of effectiveness of activity.