Methodological issues of assessing the results of the development of small and medium-sized enterprises in the Russian Federation in terms of state support and regional distribution of economic activity in the entrepreneurial environment
The article analyzes the results of the realization of national projects to support and develop small and medium-sized enterprises in Russia on the basis of open data; an assessment of the influence of factors on the change in the structure of small and medium-sized enterprises in the dynamics of the federal districts is presented. The author used the criteria of population density and the scale of the federal district as the basis for the methodology of evaluating the influence of factors, also leaders in the development of this area of the economy have been identified. The effectiveness of state policy on financial support and development of small and medium-sized businesses in the country was analyzed. The uneven distribution of indicators of development of small and medium-sized businesses across federal districts, identified in the study, presents a problem in assessing the effectiveness of national programs to support entrepreneurship at the level of federal districts. In order to smooth out the identified inequalities, the author proposes to use a point estimate of the level of development of entrepreneurship in the federal district. This assessment allows us to rank federal districts and identify among them the most in need of support measures and the development of entrepreneurship that must be taken into account in the allocation of financial resources in the implementation of national projects in this area.