Recovering time series of Russian economy over a long period of time, done by a number of authors in recent years, allows one to move to solving an issue of a deeper analysis of economic dynamics and comparisons of different periods from the viewpoint of a forming consistent, transformation, replacement and other development types and substantiating factors determining them. Herewith, it is important to explain the creation of the factors themselves, from other factors’ point of view, as well as taking into account the features of every development stage, cyclic waves of economic dynamics and economic policy conducted at this stage identifying the primary development sources. Methodological approaches to solving this issue are presented, along with implementation results amid the research of the dynamics of the Russian economy, with a more detailed presentation of the research results of the post-reform phase. The author’s view on transformation of the factors’ structure in development period under review is presented. The possibilities for using the proposed methodology for economic forecasting purposes and directions for development of statistics to better reflect the innovation factor are characterized.

The author summarizes his point of view on novations in the Russian methodology for measuring the NOE that was carried out after the introduction of the corresponding assessments based on the international standards’ principles introduced into in the regular statistical practice in the 1990s. In the description of the methodological foundations of the NOE in Russian statistics are reviewed major stages of its evaluation and organization of the work of Rosstat adjusting GDP (calculated using three methods) on the volume of economic transactions, non observed by direct statistical methods; commented are examples of measuring parameters NOE to industry statistics, characterized by major ways of improving methods of incorporating estimates of the NOE in the calculation of macroeconomic indicators.

The directions of the effects of informatization on the world of work and employment are observed. Methodological principles of assessing the level of informatization are formulated by allocating and determining the parameters of the sector of information and communication technologies, including employment rates and the share contribution of the sector to the GDP. The article presents estimates of the characteristics of the ICT sector in the Russian economy over the recent years. it is concluded that in the aggregate impact of different directions on the labor market informatization processes have not led to a reduction in employment.

It is the author’s opinion that, now ecological and resource factors aren’t reflected in any way in a human development index though they are the bright characteristic of labor activity of the people. Article explains the need to consider ecologically adjusted or «green» GDP, rather than traditional indicator of the gross domestic product when assessing HDI. Examples of calculating HDI on the basis of ecologically adjusted GRP for the Russian regions are given. It is shown that for raw regions HDI considerably decreases at such modification of its calculation procedure.

In this article factors influencing the state and development of the pension system of the country are defined. Analysis of the structure and dynamics of the income of the state pension fund, including distribution of contributions to compulsory pension insurance by regions of the Russian Federation is carried out. Multidimensional classification of regions by aggregated factors defining the level of pension system revenues is proposed.

A method for estimating the quality of the pre-crisis economic social development is suggested. In this evaluation, the pre-crisis growth rates of human development index, that is not associated with income, were adjusted using the constructed integral index of crisis passage by the authors. A comparative analysis of the economic quality of the pre-crisis social development and impact of the crisis on Russia, «Crisis 4» countries (Greece, Ireland, Spain, Portugal) and world’s largest economies.

In this article modern development trends in the world patent market are examined on the basis of data on issuing patents, the role of Russia in the global patent activity is assessed. Homogeneous groups of countries by indicators of patent and scientific activity are allocated using multivariate classification. Forecast of patenting inventions by the world’s leading patent offices and Rospatent that allowed to assess prospects and main development directions of the world patent market is developed.

The article provides descriptions of current situation and development prospects for the official statistics in the CIS region. Key issues of statistics development and their solutions in establishing an integrated statistical space as an element of generic framework for developing and reconciling social and economic policies are addressed.

The article analyses the new role of statistics and statistical education during the transition to the sixth technological mode. Current tasks and development directions for human capital on the basis of quasi-hyperbolic distribution of «quantity-quality professionals» are discussed. The results of the implementation of the above mentioned approach are in defining the contemporary challenges in education.

The world experience testifies to the growing role of the continuous development of professional skills and competencies of workers employed in the economy. Recently, in Russia more attention is given to these issues, however, the system of information and analytical support of the process of continuous vocational education and training (CVT) at the workplace is still just being formed. The article presents the current system of information sources; results of analysis of statistical data, with emphasis on financing issues and inclusion of workers in the CVT process are presented.