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The System of Well-being Indicators in the Russian Arctic Regions

Table 1:

Domain Dimension Indicator Definition
Health Classical indicators of public health Life expectancy at birth Number of years to be lived by a person from a birth, assuming the mortality level for every age remains the same as in the years for which the rate is calculated
Infant mortality Number of deaths of infants less than one year old, per 1,000 live births
Child mortality Number of deaths of children less than five years old, per 1,000 live births
Access to health care Percentage of population within one hour of transportation to health care, and with insurance or government arrangements to pay
Mental health Suicide rate Number of suicides per 100,000 population
Self-assessed health Percentages based on self-reports of the general state of health or existence of specific health problems
Chronic disease Smoking rate Percentage of population currently smoking cigarettes or other forms of tobacco
Number of cigarettes smoked per adult (inhabitant 15 years of age and older)
Population morbidity Number of recorded cases of patients with first diagnosis in life, per 1,000 population
Alcohol-related morbidity rate Alcohol related hospital admissions based on primary or secondary diagnosis per 100,000 population
Alcohol-related mortality rate Number of accidental poisoning by alcohol deaths per 100,000 population
Alcohol consumption Sales of pure alcohol per adult
Demography Birth rate Number of live births per 1,000 of population
Natural increase rate Number of live births minus deaths per 1,000 of population
Net migration Population change due to the balance of in- and outmigration per 1,000 of population
Low-birthweight babies Percentage of newborns weighing less than 2,500 grams, with the measurement taken within the first hours of life, before significant postnatal weight loss has occurred
Maternity Percentage of births attended by skilled health staff
Percentage of pregnant women receiving prenatal care
Teenage mothers Percentage of women ages 15-19 who have had children or are currently pregnant
Adolescent fertility rate Number of births per 1,000 women ages 15-19
Education General education Preschool participation rate Percentage of children stated as attending preschool aged 3-7 years
Dropout rate Percentage of first-graders stated as being dropped out to grade 9
School participation rate Percentage of children stated as attending school aged 7-14 years
Out-of-school children Percentage of indigenous primary-school-age children who are not enrolled in either primary or secondary schools
Post-secondary and tertiary education Student attendance rates Number of students per 10,000 population
Education participation Proportion of students pursuing post-secondary or tertiary education opportunities
Proportion of indigenous population students pursuing post-secondary or tertiary education
Tertiary education rate Percentage of employed people with tertiary education
Percentage of employed indigenous people with tertiary education
Post-secondary education Percentage of employed people with post-secondary education
Percentage of employed indigenous people with post-secondary education
Material well-being Economic participation GRP per capita, PPP Gross regional product divided by midyear population based on purchasing power parity
Unemployment rate (ILO estimate) Percentage of the labor force that is without work but available for and seeking employment
Income Household disposable income Household disposable income divided by the number of persons of the household per month, [rub]
Real disposable income Ratio of per capita income to the subsistence minimum
Meals spending Percentage of costs for meals in the total amount of consumer spending
Basic necessities and poverty Poverty headcount index Percentage of population with monetary incomes below the subsistence minimum level
Relative poverty headcount index Percentage of population with monetary incomes below 50% of the average actual income per capita
Gini index Extent to which the distribution of income among individuals or households within an economy deviates from a perfectly equal distribution
Undernourishment Percentage of population whose dietary energy consumption is continuously below a minimum dietary energy requirement for maintaining a healthy life and carrying out a light physical activity with an acceptable minimum body-weight for attained-height
Malnutrition prevalence Percentage of children under age 5 whose weight for age is more than two standard deviations below the median for the international reference population ages 0-59 months
Housing Dwellings with basic facilities Percentage of the dwellings with drainage of total number of dwellings
Housing quality Percentage of population living in dilapidated and hazardous housing
Social norm of housing Percentage of population living in a dwelling with an area less than 20 (15) sq.m. per one person
Housing expenditure Expenditure of households in housing and maintenance of the house as a percentage of the household gross adjusted disposable income
Housing satisfaction Percentage of households dissatisfied with their housing conditions for various reasons
Cultural vitality Language vitality Indigenous language learning Percentage of indigenous children learning indigenous language at school
Indigenous language use Percentage of households speaking indigenous language at home
Belonging Recreational or subsistence activities Percentage of people engaged in recreational or subsistence activities on the land
Fate control Decision-making power Political power Percentage of local personnel living in a locality for more than 10 years in key decision-making positions
Percentage of indigenous members in governing bodies (municipal, regional) relative to the percentage of the indigenous people in the total population
Percentage of seats held by indigenous people in regional parliaments
Voter turnout Percentage of indigenous individuals that cast a ballot during an election of President of Russian Federation in 2012 to the indigenous population registered to vote
Local control Resources control Proportion of land, renewable and non-renewable resources in a given jurisdiction over which local population has some significant form of exclusionary rights (use, proprietary, disposition).
Economic control Self-generated income Proportion of one’s own revenue in the total volume of budget (regional, municipal) revenue
Self-generated expenses Percentage of public expenses within the region (regional government, municipal taxes, community sales taxes) raised locally
Budget coverage Ratio of minimum public expenses to revenues
Access to information Internet use Percentage of individuals who have used the Internet (from any location) in the last 12 months
Mobile cellular subscriptions Subscriptions to a public mobile telephone service that provide access to the PSTN using cellular technology per 100 people
Population covered by a mobile-cellular network Percentage of people within range of a mobile-cellular signal, irrespective of whether they are subscribers or users or not
Natural resource and environmental sustainability Contact with the nature Traditional activities Percentage of people or households engaged in the traditional economy
Percentage of people eating meat of wild animals three or more times a week
Environmental status Provision of clean drinking water Percentage of water samples with safe and conditionally safe drinking water over the total number of water samples
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