Exploring the links between the ethnic structure and the dwellings quality in the Romanian Danube Valley

The Romanian sector of the Danube Valley covers a large area in which the life of resident communities is shaped by the river (1,075 km long). Exploring the links between the location of different ethnic minorities and the dwelling quality supposes to process and to map the statistical data provided by the National Institute of Statistics. Computing the final Dwelling Quality and Ethnic Diversity Indexes and mapping the secondary indexes offer the possibility to conclude that only two of the statistical variables assessing housing quality (dwellings connected to the water supply network and with a bathroom inside the house) show good statistical and territorial correlation with the share of Roma and Serbian minorities.