QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE METHODS OF SOCIOLOGICAL STUDIES OF POPULATION LIVING STANDARD AS THE MOST IMPORTANT FACTOR OF LIFE QUALITY
The article treats the standard of living of the population as a major factor of quality of life. It introduces methodological approaches to estimate population life quality. The article substantiates the formation conditions of population life quality in a large Siberian city based on quantitative and qualitative methods of sociological studies conducted in the city of Irkutsk from 2001 to 2012.