NORMATIVE-STATISTICAL AND RELATIVE MEDIAN APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION BY STANDARD OF LIVING
Vyacheslav Bobkov, Одинцова Елена Валерьевна, Колмаков Игорь Борисович · Вестник Института экономики Российской академии наук · 2025
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.