Integral assessment of small business development in Ukraine

The article is devoted to carrying out an integrated assessment of small business development in Ukraine on the basis of a multi-dimensional medium for the development of areas of support of small businesses. The method of multidimensional medium without reducing the aggregate, gives the opportunity to build a hierarchical grouping system performance of small businesses in regions of Ukraine, to study the distribution patterns, relationships and trends. The calculated integral ratios of small business development in 2008 and 2012. possible to determine the rating of Ukraine's regions. It was determined that the small business by region is developing quite uniformly, despite the uneven socio-economic development of regions of Ukraine. The main directions of state support of small business.