SOCIO-ECONOMIC INDICATORS AS AN OBJECT OF STATISTICAL OBSERVATION
Abstract
The system of socio-economic indicators and the methodology of their determination helps to identify patterns, analyze them, draw conclusions and make decisions.
Socio-economic indicators examine all possible aspects of socio-economic life, paying the main attention to those which at this stage of social development constitute the most acute social interest and the main problem in relation to which help is needed.
Socio-economic indicators help predict the future development and change of social processes in society when developing perspectives in accordance with social policy.
The social orientation of the economy, the combination of market methods of management with state regulation of the economy are an important feature of the functioning of the socially oriented market economy of most developed countries.
Today in our country there are all potential opportunities for building a socially oriented national model, but, it should be especially emphasized, on the basis of changes in the economic strategy, consisting in the importance of structural and industrial policy taking into account the functional integrity of the market system, and carrying out privatization as a factor of increasing the economic efficiency. The level of our economic development is still significantly below the average world standards and below many neighboring countries. Weaknesses and shortcomings remain in socio-economic realities.
Any region can be represented in the form of a socio-economic system, which is determined by the functioning of social and economic activities in the territory of this region. The socio-economic system of the region represents a set of interconnected components: economic and social subsystems.
A special role in determining the level of economic development of the region is played by traditional indicators that assess the level of production and consumption of goods and the growth of this level on a per capita basis. Indicators of life expectancy, the level of health of the population, the level of education and qualification, as well as indicators of structural changes in production and society are no less important.
