ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE SAMARA REGION
There are 19 indicators characterizing the social policy of the region: socio-demographic, social and labor in-dicators, income indicators, and health, housing, education, culture and recreation, economic and social secu-rity, etc. The analysis of the dynamics of socio-economic development indicators of the Samara region for the period from 2014 to 2016 is carried out. Based on the social profile of the region, the place of the Samara re-gion among the regions of the Russian Federation in terms of social indicators of economic development is identified.
Keywords: social policy, level and quality of life, population incomes,socio-demographic indicators, social and labor indicators, health indicators, housing provision for the population, education, culture and recreation indicators, economic and social security indicators, social profile of the region.
Highlights:
• social and economic policy of the region are based on socio-demographic, income, social, labor, medical, housing, educational, cultural-leisure and other components represented by 19 indicators;
• the dynamics of socio-economic indicators of the Samara region for 2014-2016 showed that the region has 12 middle indicators among the regions of the Russian Federation (30-60th) in 12 indicators (out of 19 ana-lyzed). And only in 3 indicators (by the level of employment, the number of students enrolled in higher educa-tion programs per 10,000 people, by the number of spectators of theaters per 1,000 population) is in the first third of the regions of the Russian Federation;
• the social profile of the region proposed in the study makes it possible to determine the strengths and weaknesses of the social and economic policy and can be used to determine the type of the region by the level and quality of life.
Svetlana V. Domnina, Doctor of Economics, Associate Professor, Samara State University of Economics. E-mail: swdomnina@mail.ru; Elena V. Savoskina, Candidate of Economics, Associate Professor, Samara State Technical University.