here the category of the registered unemployed, as the fundamental step
inestimating the general situation with regard to this particular factor.
Crime. The relevant basic data are routinely compiled and processed at special
analytical units under the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The interred assessments
could be found from time to time in periodicals.
Political situation. This is the least estimable in quantitative terms factor of social
stability in a region where accessible statistical data collected on a regular basis
are non-existent. At the same time, a region’s social situation is dramatically
affected by the fact that federal and executive authorities are at a deadlock; political
parties and currents are active in their strivings, as are leaders of strike and trade-
union movements; political and economic credo of the qualified majority in
administrative bodies shows its opposition to the government course.
International relations. Nowadays this is a major factor destabilizing a region’s
social situation. Alongside the objective processes such as the rise in national
consciousness, movement «to restore historial justice» involving the nationalities
that inhabit a region, the struggle for economic and political sovereignty would
bring about selfish motives of preserving (or winning) political and economic
power.
There is one special feature about the cited processes, which is their latent
ripening culminating in a sort of explosion during social aggravations, or even in an
armed conflict.
Ecology. There have been setup regular bodies in the form of regional and federal
Committees for Ecology. Here the only difficulty is how to switch from step-by-step
efforts in assessing the environmental pollution to integrated estimates of a
territory’s ecological balance.
Consumer market behaviour. Avariety of approaches based, for instance, on the
use of a number of consumer goods baskets - physiological, minimal, rational,
actual, etc. - make it possible to access the rated capacity of consumer market in a
region, i.e. the amount of goods and services to be consumed by its population.
Real supply of these goods and services may not meet the eventual requirements
estimated through one of the above approach, let alone the actual demand