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Duke Economics Working Paper #95-12

Population Welfare and Health: A Survey of Recent Developments in Russian Statistics


Vladimir G. Treml

Abstract

Examination of changes in availability and reliability of Soviet and post-Soviet state statistics related to population money income, consumption, health, and welfare of the last ten years. It is noted that gaps, ambiguities, and archaic collection methods still plague the statistical data.

JEL I12 I18 I31 C81

33 pages

For additional information about this paper, contact Vladimir Treml, treml@econ.duke.edu.