Репродуктивные установки и поведение интеллигенции региона (по материалам социологического исследования в Ивановской области)
Reproductive Attitudes and Behaviour of Intelligentsia (Based on Sociological Survey in the Ivanovo Region)

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with present day demographic challenges in the depressed region of the Russian Federation, which has been demonstrating low birth rates for over 30 years. At the same time, the region has its social and cultural features, historical traditions, scientific and educational capacity which, taken together, to a large extend also determine the reproductive behavior of the population. Relying on the empirical data, the authors are attempting to explain this contradiction and to reveal the approaches, which will help to improve the situation. Methodology of complex sociological analysis, combination of quantitative and qualitative procedures helped to deeply study the grounds for and factors of reproductive preferences and behavior of the intelligentsia. For the first time such methods as survey and focus group interviews have been systematically implied to research the reproductive preferences and behavior; an on-line survey motivating childbirth is suggested. The results of the research prompted the necessity to create a separate field in addressing the reproductive issues; the field is closely connected to such medical factors as training specialists in men’s reproductive health. The Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation has supported the ideas of Ivanovo medical intelligentsia. In the article the present day agenda is summarized, the trends of institutional support development for breakthrough national objectives in the sphere of demography are outlined. One of the challenges in the demography management is the necessity to constantly modify the processes depending on the current regulatory environment and, what is more important, on the level of participation of regional intelligentsia in national demographic objectives. The conclusion presents a wide range of ideas on improvement of programs, projects and practices of demographic policy.

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