INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL ADVERSITY ON ASSESSMENTS HUMAN POTENTIAL

Abstract

Specialists have developed a series of indices in order to determine the degree of achieve- ment of «The Goals Sustainable Development» aimed at improving the social well-being of the world community. Despite all advantages of these indices, their application for the regions of Russia meets a number of difficulties, the main of which is the inaccessibility of information necessary for their calculation. Presented in the article system of indicators of social adversity in Russia and in the countries world-wide for 2000—2015 proves their significant impact on the human development level. Statistical analysis of the indicators of social adversity in the regions of Russia showed their significant heterogeneity. In order to identify similar regions in the structure of these indicators, in the study was undertaken clusters’ formation for the averaged over the period of 2000—2015 values of the character- istics under consideration. According to the results of the study, the regions were divided into three homogeneous groups, which are significantly different. The developed classification makes it possible to pursue actions towards increasing the social well-being in accordance with the specifics of each group of regions. In order to carry out a comparative analysis of the countries of the world community and regions of Russia in terms of social well-being, a general index is proposed, which can be used both as a separate indicator of the social well-being and as one of the components of the human development index together with the demographic, economic and educational components.