Sustainable Coupling Coordination and Influencing Factors of Sports Facilities Construction and Social Economy Development in China

• Main Authors: Zheng, Lin-Hong, Abidin, Nor Eeza Zainal, Mohd Nor, Mohammad Nazri, Xu, Yue-Yun, Feng, Xiao-Wei
• Format: Article
• Published: MDPI 2023
• Subjects: H Social Sciences (General); Business cycles. Economic fluctuations
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/38759/

Sports facilities are a crucial physical safeguard and means of sustaining sporting activities. The steady and healthy development of sports facilities can promote the sustainable development of the social economy. In order to explore the coordination status and influencing factors between sports facilities construction and the social economy, this paper built a coupling coordination evaluation index system and dynamic factor index system for the sports facilities construction and social economy development by using the entropy method, coupling coordination model and random effect model. This paper assessed the comprehensive level, coupling coordination relationship, and influencing factors of the sports facilities and social economy development of nine cities in the Fujian Province across China from 2016 to 2020. The results show the overall level of sports facilities construction in Fujian is better than the social economy development, and the two systems are interacting with each other. The level of coupli