METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO ASSESSING THE IMPACT AND EFFECTIVENESS OF REGIONAL SOCIAL AND DEMOGRAPHIC POLICIES: THE THEORETICAL ASPECT
The development of instruments for implementing social and demographic policies today requires clarification and improvement of methods for assessing and monitoring them. This is primarily about the evaluation of efficiency and effectiveness. This task is of particular relevance and applied significance, since the quality of state and municipal administration in the designated areas depends on the reliability of diagnostics of efficiency and effectiveness, and ultimately, the quality of life of the population of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation. At the same time, both conceptual and methodological approaches to assessing the effectiveness and effectiveness of social and demographic policies in our country are not unequivocal. This work first clarified the concepts of the effectiveness and effectiveness of demographic and social policies. Then methodological approaches to their evaluation were systematized, the advantages and disadvantages of groups of methods were revealed. Based on the testing of the selected groups of methods for assessing the effectiveness and effectiveness of social and demographic policies, the areas of their application are formulated on the example of the Vologda region. The report summarizes key metrological problems in the analysed research area and proposes ways to solve them.