An index set showing the social and economic development of rural households in Pskov oblast

Garskaya Elena Sergheyevna, Mamedov Akhmed Kurbanovich

The article explicates a multi-sided research of the Pskov oblast rural population socio-economic situation nowadays. The research has revealed low indicators of the level of living as well as a poor demographic situation. The rural territory issues are evident and they pose a problem of Russia’s loosing its territorial integrity owing to a decreasing numbers of rural population. One of the main reasons in this respect is the crisis of agriculture, the main source of the rural economy. Basing on the results of the research and deducing from them, a set of measures and actions to increase the Pskov oblast rural population level is offered. Following more than fifteen year period of reforming the Russian economy including its agricultural and industrial complex, the poverty level of villagers has become much higher than one of people living in a city: 75% of villagers have money income per capita below the standard of living and 61% of villagers have disposable income per capita below the poverty level. The research of the given problem is aimed at providing an opportunity for a comprehensive analysis of the processes in the social and labour sphere of settlements white their local conditions being taken into account. It results from the dramatic reduction of state reports and statements on the social and labour problems of settlements. The current status doesn't allow to analyse the processes taking place in the social and labour sphere of settlements in a comprehensive and authentic way. It makes impossible to find out differencies in the countryside.

Keywords:demography, demographic situation, statistics, level of living, poverty, mortality, agriculture.