Pronina I. Giving standards of the population of Ukraine: the methods of analysis and increasing

The object is the process of forming of living standards of the population of Ukraine in general and in the regional aspect, as well as by some social-economic and social-demographic groups of the population; the aim is development of methodological and methodical bases of complex characteristics of living standards of the population of Ukraine and practical recommendations of its raising; the methods: structural-analogue, cartographic, modeling, comparative analysis, grouping, expert estimations, index analysis; news results - the economic sense of the term "living standards" is defined, the hierarchical system of indicators of the population living standards estimation is developed, the methods and algorithm of calculation of integral indicator are developed; the results - the directions of improvement of the population living standards are suggested, the possibilities of raising of labour incomes of the population are determined, the suggestions on forming of the system of social protection are developed.