Social well-being of the central Russia

region's population

E.E. KogayKogay

Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Philosophy, professorprofessor

Kursk State University, RussiaKursk State University, Russia

The social well-being The social well-being includes the includes the next components: next components:

- - the degree of people's protection the degree of people's protection from dangers, from dangers,

- - the degree of people's satisfaction the degree of people's satisfaction with their life in whole, with their life in whole,

- - the degree of social optimism. the degree of social optimism.

THE PUBLIC INQUIRY THE PUBLIC INQUIRY

2007 –2007 –

40 populated localities40 populated localities;;

The sample's volume The sample's volume – 1128 – 1128 peoplepeople; ;

2009 – 2009 –

51 51 populated localitiespopulated localities; ;

The sample's volume The sample's volume – 1000 – 1000 peoplepeople. .

The public inquiry was conducted in the form of The public inquiry was conducted in the form of one-hour interviewsone-hour interviews (62 questions) in the (62 questions) in the confidential and domiciliary atmosphere.confidential and domiciliary atmosphere.

Protectability of the Kursk residents Protectability of the Kursk residents from social dangersfrom social dangers

(% from the number of interrogated people, (% from the number of interrogated people, 2007/2007/20020099))Kinds of

dangersProtected

likely protected

difficult to say

Unlikely protected

Not protected

at all

The RF, 2006Not protected

Criminality 6,7/5,6 8,0/7,1 19,5/25,8 30,8/34,8 35,0/26,7 71Poverty 7,9/5,3 12,7/10,2 25,1/25,1 25,8/33,0 28,5/26,4 68Ecological threat

9,5/10,7 11,7/17,1 23,4/26,3 26,7/23,1 28,7/22,8 62Functionary lawlessness

8,4/6,7 9,8/10,7 24,5/31,4 31,7/31,4 25,7/19,8 59

Law machinery lawlessness

10,8/7,9 12,9/12,7 27,7/32,5 27,7/29,0 20,7/17,9 52

Loneliness and neglect

19,6/18,7 19,1/19,3 25,3/24,3 18,9/21,0 17,1/16,7 44Oppressions because of age and sex

36,7/38,5 21,5/24,9 20,7/20,9 13,4/10,4 7,6/5,3 26

Political persecutions

42,0/38,7 18,1/19,6 23,2/27,5 10,0/7,2 6,8/7,0 17

Race discrimination

54,4/53,5 19,3/22,2 14,7/15,7 7,4/4,8 4,1/3,8 13

Religious persecutions

57,4/55,4 17,4/20,9 14,7/14,7 6,2/4,7 4,6/4,3 10

Kursk Region Population Satisfaction with Kursk Region Population Satisfaction with their lifetheir life

(% from the number of interrogated people, (% from the number of interrogated people, 2007/2009)2007/2009)

Variants of answers City Village In all

The RF,

2006

Satisfied absolutely 10,6/11,6 11,0/9,0 10,7/10,4 9

Rather satisfied 41,7/41,3 35,5/40,4 39,0/41,7 45

Found difficulty in exact replying

15,3/12,5 17,6/20,2 16,3/15,5 17

Not quite satisfied 25,8/30,0 30,6/26,2 27,9/27,9 24

Dissatisfied absolutely 6,5/4,5 5,1/4,1 5,9/4,4 5

Refused to answer 0,2/0,2 0,2/0 0,2/0,1 5

Confidence of the Kursk Region Inhabitants Confidence of the Kursk Region Inhabitants in their futurein their future

(% from the number of interrogated, 2007 (% from the number of interrogated, 2007/2009/2009))Variants of answers

City Village In allThe RF,

2006Quite confident

11/8,3 7,7/7,7 9,6/7,8 11

Rather confident than not confident

24,9/26,9 20,5/22,7 23,0/25,6 32

Can't say exactly

27,6/35,9 33,9/41,3 30,3/38,4 26

Rather not confident than confident

21,4/18,8 21,1/18,9 21,3/18,4 21

Not confident absolutely

14,3/9,4 16,8/8,7 15,4/9,1 9

Refused to answer

0,8/0,7 0,0/0,8 0,4/0,7 1

Distribution of the answers to the question: «How Distribution of the answers to the question: «How close or remote do you feel for the called group of close or remote do you feel for the called group of

people?» people?» (% from the number of interrogated, (% from the number of interrogated, 20020099))

Distribution of the answers to the question Distribution of the answers to the question of mutual understandingof mutual understanding

Level of the Kursk Region Population Trust Level of the Kursk Region Population Trust to the authority institutesto the authority institutes

(% from the number of interrogated, 2007 from the number of interrogated, 2007/2009/2009))Court Gover

norLabor

unions Public

prosecutor's office

Police Government

Party (region

al department)

Parlament

Mass media

Fully trust

19,6/14,3

36,0/20,0

9,4/6,3 12,1/9,1 8,8/7,510,2/11,

56,8/4,3 8,4/7,4 6,7/4,4

Likely trust

25,6/32,3

30,2/37,3

14,6/16,6

19,1/21,4

15,4/15,7

22,5/26,3

10,6/11,5

16,9/19,0

19,6/16,0

Difficult to say exactly

15,9/22,9

14,8/20,8

29,2/38,9

22,4/30,2

18,5/26,2

24,8/27,8

25,4/32,3

24,5/29,6

21,8/28,3

Trust not complete

ly

19,1/19,7

9,6/12,318,5/18,

022,8/25,

426,7/28,

420,8/20,

622,3/26,

922,1/23,

825,8/29,

2

Don’t trust

absolutely

14,8/8,5 6,3/7,219,1/15,

118,4/11,

526,5/20,

315,9/11,

525,6/21,

721,6/17,

321,8/20,

1

Don’t know 3,6/1,4 2,0/1,2 7,4/3,6 3,7/1,3 2,7/0,8 4,1/1,5 7,0/2,0 4,3/1,6 2,6/1,2

Refuse to reply 1,3/0,9 1,2/1,2 1,9/1,5 1,5/1,1 1,4/1,1 1,7/1,2 2,3/1,3 2,3/1,3 1,7/0,8

CONCLUSIONSCONCLUSIONS

The population of Kursk region has quite The population of Kursk region has quite

adapted to the happening social and economic adapted to the happening social and economic

changes and nowadays it relies more on itself changes and nowadays it relies more on itself

and its potential, showing moderate optimism and its potential, showing moderate optimism

in estimating its prospects. in estimating its prospects.

STUDENTS OF KURSK STATE UNIVERSITYSTUDENTS OF KURSK STATE UNIVERSITY

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