Официальная и субъективная бедность в России: влияние событий 2020-2021 гг.

Социологические исследования. 2023. № 10. С. 78–90.

Belopashentseva P.

The article examines the impact of 2020–2021 events on official and subjective poverty.
The expediency of using the term “official poverty” to refer to all methodological approaches (absolute
until 2021 and relative from 2021) used by the government to establish the poverty line is substantiated.
Based on the data of the Russian monitoring of the economic situation and health of the population of
the National Research University Higher School of Economics, it is shown that official poverty showed
an atypical decline during the crisis period, which, as might have been expected, was the result of
a change in the methodology for determining the poverty line and the impact of social policy measures.
Subjective poverty kept the pre-crisis level. The relation between officially and subjectively poor groups
remained stable, the group portraits also did not show significant transformations, and the changes in
living conditions are largely related to the habits of the self-isolation period. The revealed differences
in the scale and dynamics of official and subjective poverty once again emphasize the importance of
a multidimensional analysis.

Keywords: poverty lines, deprivation, депривации, абсолютная бедность, absolute poverty, subjective poverty, субъективная бедность, граница бедности, official poverty, официальная бедность

Publication based on the results of: Transformation of the living standard and quality of life of various social groups in changing macroeconomic conditions (2023)