Purchasing power assessment population

Issue № 9, 2019, article № 8, pages 73-84

Section: Development of rural territories

Language: Russian

Original language title: ОЦЕНКА ПОКУПАТЕЛЬНОЙ СПОСОБНОСТИ НАСЕЛЕНИЯ

Keywords: THE PURCHASING POWER OF THE POPULATION, DISPOSABLE HOUSEHOLD RESOURCES, THE RATIO OF WAGES IN AGRICULTURE TO THE AVERAGE WAGE IN THE ECONOMY, THE PARITY OF THE PURCHASING POWER OF WAGES, CONSUMER CONFIDENCE

Abstract: The dynamic economy of the agro-industrial complex does not always show good results in terms of social efficiency, in particular, the level of wages and the purchasing power of the rural population. This contributes to an increase in social tensions in the countryside, the search for work, which is different from the sphere of the agro-industrial complex, which creates certain personnel tensions in the countryside. This aggravates the fact that the level of wages in agriculture is 35‰ less than in the whole economy. Moreover, the proportion of the poor in the countryside is several times higher than in the city. All this significantly affects the purchasing power of the rural population. Over the past 7 years, the purchasing power of the population has decreased in such products as beef, by 2.4 kg, drinking milk by 38.5 kg, cottage cheese by 25 kg, sunflower oil by 10 kg, butter by 27.9 kg, and wheat flour by 14.6 kg per month. The situation with the consumption of basic foodstuffs in rural households is more prosaic. The dynamics of the consumption of basic foodstuffs by rural households are not stable for products such as bread, potatoes, sugar and confectionery. Obviously, this can be explained by potato production in rural households and baking bread from purchased flour. The consumption of bread products decreased by 17 kg or 12.5‰, the consumption of potatoes decreased by 30 kg or almost 30‰ compared to 2005, in quantitative terms. Thus, despite an increase in nominal monetary incomes, both in the economy as a whole and in rural areas, a decrease in the purchasing power of the population is observed.

Authors: Kolesnikov Andrei Viktorovich