NUTRITIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF RUSSIAN POOR HOUSEHOLDS: REGIONAL DIFFERENTIATION
Poverty is one of the most important problems of modern Russia. The main characteristics of poor nutrition are much lower than rational consumption norms. The goal of the study is to identify and assess the impact of poverty factors on the specific nutrition of the poor, regional differentiation of poverty is relevant. Revealed a significant differentiation of the proportion of people with incomes below the subsistence minimum for the regions of Russia. On the basis of the correlation analysis, a selection was made of the indicators that allow assessing the impact of economic (poverty scales, average per capita income, unemployment rate) and demographic factors (households with underage children, the share of rural population in the population of the region) on poor nutrition characteristics. As a result of the extrapolation of the relationship revealed by the authors between the influence factors and the nutritional characteristics of the poor in the Siberian regions on all poor Russian households, the specificity of consumption of the main products of the poor population of the Russian Federation. The main problems in the nutrition of the poor have been identified: low caloric intake, reduced protein intake of animal products, and many carbohydrate foods with low nutritional value. The results of the study represent a contribution to the regional economy in the development of social policy instruments for the purpose of equalizing the population in terms of nutrition characteristics.