Alternative Estimates of Personal Income Per Capita in Russian Regions

  • Andrey Viktorovich Yantsen
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Publication date
March 2017
Publisher
Economic Research Institute of the Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
ISSN
1815-9834
Journal
1815-9834

Abstract

Average income per capita is one of the main indicators of the standard of living. This indicator is widely used in research devoted to poverty, interregional income inequality, and is also the main reference point of success of pursued regional policies. A number of researchers note poor quality of official data on household income and call into question their reliability in some regions of Russia. The main reasons include the following: the scale of shadow economy, especially at the level of some regions; insufficient state financing of respective research; and outdated statistical methods of data processing. The author offers the method of quality checking of official statistical data on income per capita by means of a number of indirect...

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