The Bulletin of the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences № 3/2025. Economics and Management.

Vyacheslav N. Bobkov

Dr. Sci. (Econ.), Professor, Honoured Science Worker of the Russian Federation, Chief Researcher, Head of the Department of Socioeconomic Research of Quality of Live and Living Standards of Center for Human Development, Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

ORCID: 0000-0001-7364-5297

 

Elena V. Odintsova

Cand. Sci. (Econ.), Leading Researcher, Department of Socioeconomic Research of Quality of Live and Living Standards of Center for Human Development, Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

ORCID: 0000-0002-7906-8520

 

Igor B. Kolmakov

Dr. Sci. (Econ.), Cand. Sci. (Phys.-Math.), independent researcher, Moscow, Russia

ORCID: 0000-0003-0582-6795

 

NORMATIVE-STATISTICAL AND RELATIVE MEDIAN APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION BY STANDARD OF LIVING

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The paper is devoted to the problem of population differentiation by standard of living, which is considered in comparison of the results of applying two approaches to its identification. The author’s theoretical and methodological “framework” for identifying the socio-economic structure of the Russian population by standard of living has been updated. The identification of purchasing power by per capita monetary income of socio-economic groups of the Russian population has been carried out in accordance with the author’s normative statistical approach and an alternative relative median approach. Quantitative estimates of the scale of population groups identified on the basis of per capita monetary incomes and differing in the criteria of purchasing power are presented within the framework of two approaches. The results obtained are considered from the perspective of opportunities for updating social policy.

Keywords: standard of living, socio-economic groups of the population, monetary incomes, purchasing power of the population, criteria boundaries for the standard of living, distribution indicators, social policy.

JEL: E21, E64, I3

EDN: RXGWDH

DOI: https://doi.org/10.52180/2073-6487_2025_3_84_105

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Manuscript submission date: 25.03.2025

Manuscript acceptance date: 30.06.2025

 

For citation:

Bobkov V.N., Odintsova E.V., Kolmakov I.B. Normative-Statistical and Relative Median Approaches to the Study of Population Differentiation by Standard of Living // Vestnik Instituta Ekonomiki Rossiyskoy Akademii Nauk. 2025. № 3. Pp. 84-105. (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.52180/2073-6487_2025_3_84_105 EDN: RXGWDH

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