Methodological Approaches to Constructing Human Capital Index: Regional Dimension
https://doi.org/10.34023/2313-6383-2024-31-2-61-72
Abstract
The paper analyses available foreign and domestic expertise in the treatment and methods for measuring human capital. The authors identify weaknesses of a common approach to measuring human capital based on international statistical standards not adapted to national features of information and statistical support for regional analysis in the face of prominent interregional differences in socio-economic development.
A methodological approach to assessing human capital is substantiated using an integral indicator that combines subindices that reflect the accumulation and reproduction of human capital. Guided by this approach and statistics on the demographic situation, upgrading knowledge, skills and strengthening the public health, including that of the working population, and based on actual data for the regions of Russia (for the year 2020), a unified summary indicator of human capital for the constituent entities of the Russian Federation was calculated and the regions were ranked by a level of human capital development.
According to the authors, the developed methodological approaches to measuring the human capital index shall make it possible to take more specific action on implementing the Programme for Socio-economic Development as applied to individual Russian regions
About the Authors
V. V. Medyanik
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Vadim V. Medyanik – First Year Master’s Student of the «Data Analysis in Economics» Program, Faculty of Economics
1, Leninskiye Gory, Bldg. 46, Moscow, 119991
A. N. Kurbatskii
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Alexei N. Kurbatskii – Cand. Sci. (Phys.-Math.), Associate Professor, Head, Department of Econometrics and Mathematical Methods of Economics, Moscow School of Economics (MSE MSU)
1, Leninskiye Gory, Bldg. 46, Moscow, 119991
P. I. Nagorny
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Pavel I. Nagorny – Fourth Year Bachelor Student of the «Economics» Program, Moscow School of Economics (MSE MSU), Department of Econometrics and Mathematical Methods of Economics
1, Leninskiye Gory, Bldg. 46, Moscow, 119991
D. V. Goryashin
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Dmitry V. Goryashin – Cand. Sci. (Phys.- Math.), Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical Analysis, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics
1, Leninskiye Gory, Bldg. 46, Moscow, 119991
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Medyanik V.V., Kurbatskii A.N., Nagorny P.I., Goryashin D.V. Methodological Approaches to Constructing Human Capital Index: Regional Dimension. Voprosy statistiki. 2024;31(2):61-72. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.34023/2313-6383-2024-31-2-61-72
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