Diagnostics of Socio-Demographic Security of the Region

Introduction. Socio-demographic security of the region is a dominant national security trend. In this regard, there is a need for its systematic diagnostics based on the use of indicators that adequately reflect the dominant processes occurring in regional economic systems. The purpose of the article is to clarify a number of definitions and supplement the existing indicators for diagnosing socio-demographic security of the region with new ones reflecting additional trends in the regional economy in the context of modern economic realities.Materials and Methods. The complexity of the methods used in the study, namely, comparison, grouping, generalization and analysis, is explained by the problems of work that combine sociology, labor economics and regional economics. Classic tools for collecting and processing information (official statistical indicators), methods of grouping data (compiling tables and calculating absolute deviation and growth rates in order to determine dynamic changes according to the grouped data), visualization (graphs) were used.Results. Approaches to determining socio-demographic security are systema-tized, the author’s definition of sociodemographic security is given in the context of its relationship with extended reproduction of population and the human potential development index. The composition of units and indicators included in them is proposed in order to characterize socio-demographic security of the region reflecting modern trends in the labor market.Discussion and Conclusion. Four units of indicators characterize socio-democratic security of the region and, along with traditional ones, include such as “the number of socially vulnerable categories of population”, “the number of persons of intellectual work”, “the number of employees in platform employment format”. The proposed approach to the comprehensive characterization of socio-demographic security of the Russian region allows taking into account all the trends that are currently characteristic of the dynamics of regional socio-economic systems.