CLUSTERING OF THE REGIONS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION BY INDICATORS OF LIVING STANDARDS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE DETERMINATION OF POVERTY OF THE POPULATION
Authors:   Institute of Socio-Economic Research is a separate structural unit of the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution Ufa Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Russia, Karimov Aybulat G. , Kadyrov Salavat Kh. ,   Institute of Socio-Economic Research is a separate structural unit of the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution Ufa Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Russia, Kabanova Elena V. ,   Institute of Socio-Economic Research is a separate structural unit of the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution Ufa Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Russia; Laboratory of Regional Quality of Life Research at the Center for the Study of Russian Regions, Institute of Sociology, FNSC RAS, Moscow, Russia
Published: January 2025

The article is devoted to the study of living standards in the context of the deter-mination of poverty in the regions of the Russian Federation. Cluster analysis is used as a sta-tistical tool. Clustering was carried out both in all regions of the Russian Federation and sepa-rately in the regions of the Volga and Ural Federal Districts using the k-means method using SPSS Statistics. The clustering of regions based on indicators of the standard of living of the population is based on two groups of indicators. The first group includes socio-economic indica-tors of living standards collected from the statistical collection "Regions of Russia. Socio-eco-nomic indicators". This group of indicators includes: demographic indicators (age composition of the population, mortality of the working-age population, life expectancy at birth, and others); indicators of the social and labor sphere (employment rate of the working-age population, unem-ployment rate, composition of the employed population and the unemployed by level of educa-tion. indicators of income and poverty of the population (average per capita and median monetary incomes of the population per month, average accrued wages of employees of organizations and others); indicators of the level of education (the number of students enrolled in various training programs of all forms of education); indicators of economic development of regions (gross regional product per capita, investments in fixed assets per capita population and others). The second clustering was carried out according to sociological indicators obtained from the results of Se-lective observation of the income of the population and participation in social programs. They are divided into indicators of the poverty level and indicators of the disposable total income of the population. The authors examine the main statistical indicators of the standard of living of the population for 2021. The purpose of the study is to carry out clustering of Russian regions according to socio−economic and sociological indicators characterizing the standard of living of the population, including working people. Research results: the research plan provided for the allocation of three representative clusters, where the determinant criterion of differentiation is the level of poverty of the population.