Methodological Principles for Assessing Socio-Economic Security of a Region

Abstract

Socio-economic development of a region is possible under several conditions, one of which at present is socio-economic security of a region. Its provision implies the availability of assessments, the reliability of which directly depends on the quality of the methodological principles of assessment. The proposed methodological principles for assessing socio-economic security of a region proceed from the provisions of the conceptual and defensive approaches to determining its status and nature, the functional and indicator approaches to its assessment. The sequence of operations and actions on the assessment is combined in the presented algorithm. The content of the stages of the developed algorithm is disclosed. According to the algorithm, both the integral assessment of socio-economic security of a region as a whole and its intermediate assessments are calculated for each of its components. The basis of the methodological principles for assessing socio-economic security of a region is a set of indicators, which include indicators of not only objective but also of subjective nature, which is why at the information stage of the assessment algorithm attention is paid to the results of monitoring public opinion in the region. Indicators for assessing socio-economic security of a region are selected using the principles of inheritance, reliability, measurability, consistency and are distributed by its individual components. An important characteristic of the selected indicators is that they allow for carrying out analysis in time and measuring regional differentiation. A sequence of formalizing the calculations of the integral indicator of the socio-economic security of a region is provided. The proposed methodological principles for assessing socio-economic security of a region can be used in practice.

Keywords

• region
• socio-economic security
• components
• assessment
• methodological principles
• indicator
• algorithm
• formalization