In this article the authors explain the need to improve monitoring instruments for the integration processes within the EAEU. They also argue that in order to better the information support of managerial decisions it is very important to develop methodological principles and methodical provision for evaluating economic effects of integration processes in the EAEU member-states. In this regard the authors review three aspects of cooperation among the EAEU countries (foreign trade, exchange of services and exchange of capital) and assesses the adequacy of the indicators that are used today to reflect the degree of integration of a single EAEU member-country with a group of EAEU partners on a quantitative example of Russia’s external economic relations in 2013-2015.
It is necessary to expand the system of indicators aimed mostly at multi-aspect reflection of inter-country exchange of services at the expanse of the following indicators: the amount of accumulated capital in the countries’ economies as a result of mutual direct investment; the assessment of the relative degree of integration - using the reference method; the magnitude of real shifts in the degree of integration- using the physical volume indices of indicators. The authors propose approaches to its formation and justify the demand in additional information and statistical support. Methodological proposals for the new indicators are illustrated with experimental calculations for Russia.
The choice of the GDP as the denominator in the formula for calculating the integration index (by any of the three integration directions) is proved to be valid. The article presents several suggestions on other possible approaches to generating the denominator for the formula with which the strength of integration relationships is estimated. There are examples illustrating differences in assessments depending on the methodological approach - the choice of a particular indicator of economic performance (used in assessing the degree of integration) and insights regarding if there has been a positive shift in the degree of integration or there was none. The authors emphasize the debatable nature of the question of preferring one approach to another in estimating the degree of integration of the EAEU member-states.

Published methodological materials represent proposals for the application of the provisions of the 2008 SNA in compiling the account of production for agriculture. Reviewed are the conceptual framework presented in the 2008 SNA, the statistical measurement of output, intermediate consumption and gross value added of agriculture, in terms of the organizational characteristics and information capacity of the CIS countries (on the example of the Russian Federation).
In the description of the methodology of calculation of indicators of output in the production account for agriculture, the emphasis is on the scope of agricultural production and identification of statistical units in the statistical population under consideration, the methodology for the calculation and assessment of agricultural output, including animal raising, scope and methodology of calculation of the release of other types of activities included in the scope of agricultural statistics. The questions of methodology of calculation of intermediate consumption in the production account for agriculture are discussed namely, the General principles of statistical estimation of intermediate consumption, intermediate consumption border as an object of statistical observation, the features of statistical estimation of intermediate consumption. Given are the schemes of formation of the intermediate consumption indicator for agricultural enterprises and unincorporated enterprises in agriculture and the methodology of calculation of gross added value for agriculture.
Analyzed are the sources of information used to compile the production account of agriculture from the perspective of the General provisions of the Global strategy to improve agricultural and rural statistics and the Recommendations of the FAO «System of economic accounts of foodstuffs and agriculture». Given are general characteristic of sources of information used currently in the CIS countries in the determination of output and intermediate consumption in the production account for agriculture. Discussed in more details are the sources of information used in practice when calculating the output and intermediate consumption of agriculture (on the example of the Russian Federation).
The Annex provides an estimation of the changes in the value of inventories at average prices of the reporting period.

Inequality in mortality between different social groups of the population has long been the focus of attention of researchers in many countries. The results of these studies tend to show that people with lower levels of education or lower professional qualifications, as well as income levels, die at a younger age. This article is devoted to the study of the differences in mortality rates between population groups with different educational levels in Russia after 1979. It also assesses the contribution of changes in the mortality rates within different educational groups and the educational structure of the population to changes in the life expectancy of the entire population.
This work is based on state statistics covering the breakdown of the population and the deceased by levels of education. The distribution of the population by age, sex and levels of education was calculated on the basis of the censuses of 1979, 1989 and 2002, and the micro-censuses of 1994 and 2015. Similar data on the deceased for 1979 and 1989 are contained in tables of vital statistics provided by statistical offices as annual reports. Data for 1998 and 2015, was obtained by further development of anonymous micro-data on the number of deceased collected by the Rosstat.
The study showed that the change in the educational structure of the population contributed most to the increase in life expectancy of both men and women at the ages of 30 to 69 in 1979 – 2015. Another positive contribution was made by the decrease in mortality in all age groups of the population with higher education, and at the age of 50 and older in groups with secondary education as well.

The article analyses prospects for incorporating multidimensional poverty indicators into Russian statistical practice. The advantages and disadvantages of one-dimensional and multidimensional approaches to measuring poverty are discussed. The authors place emphasis on the combination of both monetary and non-monetary indicators of poverty using workings of the UN Statistical Commission and the World Bank. Among monetary indicators special attention is given to «consumer expenditures» aggregate.
It is demonstrated that there is a discrepancy between estimates of well-being indicators sourced from household surveys and obtained when calculating the system of national accounts. The issue of selecting poverty and well-being projections to calculate multidimensional indices agreeing with modern Russian conditions is reviewed. The authors underline the special importance of health indicators with regard to poverty characteristics. They also discuss ways to aggregate information on the poor into the final poverty index.
Attention is paid to the Rosstat’s surveys on income, expenditure and living conditions of the population as sources of information for constructing multidimensional poverty index, material deprivation and social exclusion. The conclusion is made that these surveys provide enough information to base on them the multidimensional poverty index that meets the requirements of international statistics, provided that there is completeness and regularity of data collection. The method for calculating MPI [Alkire-Foster (AF) method] is illustrated in the article on the data of the notional example.