Subjective Perception of Economic Performance: Ongoing Assessments and the Factors Forming Them

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Notes

1. The “television–refrigerator” dilemma is a metaphorical reference to the battle for Russians’ minds between the patriotic fervor fueled by state television and economic conditions as symbolized by consumer goods like the refrigerator.—Trans.

2. Except for family income, which respondents often prefer not to disclose in surveys.

3. See Krasil’nikova, M.D. “Otnoshenie k vlasti v strukture sotsial’nogo samochuvstviia,” Vestnik obshchestvennogo mneniia, 2012, No. 2.

4. See Krasil’nikova, M.D. “Rossiiskii potrebitel’—meniaetsia li on?,” Vestnik obshchestvennogo mneniia, 2016, No. 1.

5. See Belianova, E.V., and S.A. Nikolaenko. “O datirovke ekonomicheskikh tsiklov: mirovoi opyt i vozmozhnosti ego ispol’zovaniia v rossiiskikh usloviiakh,” Voprosy statistiki, 2013, No. 8, pp. 30–41.

6. Gimpel’son, V.E., et al. Dvizhenie rabochikh mest v rossiiskoi ekonomike: v poiskakh sozidatel’nogo razrusheniia. Preprint WP3/2012/03.

7. Krasil’nikova, M.D. “Kul’tura bednosti. Postsovetskii kommentarii k Veblenu,” Vestnik obshchestvennogo mneniia, 2011, No. 1.

8. The survey was conducted with a sample representing the views of Russia’s urban and rural population aged 18 and older, N = 2,400.

9. We should note that the wording of the questions about the availability of educational and medical-care services does not define the source of those services (paid or free, in Russia or abroad).