ON THE ISSUE OF ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF THE POPULATION: THEORY AND METHODOLOGY

Issue № 9, 2023, article № 13, pages 123-136

Language: Russian

Original language title: К ВОПРОСУ ОЦЕНКИ КАЧЕСТВА ЖИЗНИ НАСЕЛЕНИЯ: ТЕОРИЯ И МЕТОДОЛОГИЯ

Keywords: THE ESSENCE OF THE CONCEPT, DIRECTIONS, COMPONENTS, EVALUATION INDICATORS, FACTORS AND SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC RESULTS, OBJECTIVIST AND SUBJECTIVIST APPROACHES TO EVALUATION

Abstract: The article is devoted to identifying the essence of the concept of "quality of life of the population" and the methodology of its assessment for monitoring and rating international and domestic comparisons. A historical excursion into the genesis and evolution of the concept is conducted. Various conceptual approaches to its interpretation, measurement methodology and empirical research in international and domestic practice are summarized and analyzed. It is concluded that the existing concepts of the quality of life construct are a conglomerate of essential features of the category with their determining factors and socio-demographic consequences. Therefore, the amorphous concept of "quality of life of the population" needs to be transformed into a socio-economic category, clearly limited by a list of adequate areas, assessment components and groups of indicators characterizing them. The author's interpretation of the quality of life of the population as a socio-economic category is given, the main directions and components of its characteristics at the first, second and third levels of disintegration are determined, which form a basic assessment system for use taking into account national accounting systems and other features in cross-country comparisons, regional and intraregional monitoring and ratings of the quality of life in individual countries. The factors and socio-demographic consequences of the quality of life are systematized, which include, in the first case, natural–geographical, economic, social, institutional and political factors, in the second - life expectancy, health status, education level, population indices, natural population growth (loss) and migration growth (loss) of the population

Authors: Bondarenko Liudmila Vasilevna