Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / Fertility and Women Life Expectancy in Krasnoyarsk Territory: Social and Economic Transition and Intraregional Demographic Response

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Issue
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2016 9 (11)
Authors
Rubleva, Marina E.; Mazharov, Vladimir F.; Gavrikov, Vladimir L.; Khlebopros, Rem G.
Contact information
Rubleva, Marina E.: Siberian Federal University 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia; E-mail: ; Mazharov, Vladimir F.: Research Institute for Complex Problems of Hygiene and Occupational Diseases Novokuznetsk-Krasnoyarsk; Krasnoyarsk State Medical University named after Prof. V.F. Voino-Yasenetsky 1 Partizan Zheleznyak Str., Krasnoyarsk, 660022, Russia; Gavrikov, Vladimir L.: Siberian Federal University 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia; Khlebopros, Rem G.: Siberian Federal University 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia; International Scientific Research Center for Extreme Conditions of Organism Krasnoyarsk Scientific Center SB RAS 50 Akademgorodok, Krasnoyarsk, 660036, Russia
Keywords
Krasnoyarsk territory; demography; life expectancy; general fertility rate; fertility; municipal units; social and economic transition
Abstract

Demographic processes are often studied one-dimensionally, i.e. the processes are described through dynamics of one demographic parameter. Meanwhile, relationships between different demographic parameters are of general interest. Tolstikhina et al. (Tolstikhina, Gavrikov, Khlebopros, Okhonin, 2013) showed that fertility and life expectancy are negatively correlated among countries of the world. The same relationship of fertility and life expectancy has been studied by us in this research at an intraregional level through the example of Krasnoyarsk Territory. The demographic data from 1995 to 2013 have been used to describe dynamics of the relationship. The main method used was weighted fitting of the data by a linear function, with weights being the population of the territory administrative regions. No statistically significant relationship between the fertility and female life expectancy has been found in 1995, i.e. the regression line on the graph was practically horizontal. However, a negative correlation has been registered in 2000 and, as the fertility grew between 2000 and 2013, the correlation appeared to be stronger and stronger. These findings are discussed on the background of the social and economic transition that Russia experienced since 1990s. Dramatic turmoil of those times may have broken a ‘normal’ course of demographic processes so that relationships between demographic parameters responded to it by the absence of correlation. Through an adaptation of the population to the new reality coupled with an average improvement of social and economic situation the correlation between the demographic parameters restored and took the shape that is characteristic of the world countries dataset

Pages
2742-2755
Paper at repository of SibFU
https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/29974

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