Vorobieva O.D., Lebedeva T.V. Demographic knowledge, profession demographer, effectiveness of demographic policy. Bulletin of the South Russian State Technical University (NPI). Series of Socio-Economic Sciences. 2021. Vol. 14. No. 2, Pp. 41-49.

Abstract

Purpose of the study. According to the results of the work carried out on February 05-06, 2021, the Third Sunday Winter Demographic School (hereinafter referred to as the School) on the basis of the Higher School of Modern Social Sciences (HSSSN), Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov and the Institute for Demographic Research of the Federal Research Sociological Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IDI FCISTS RAS) of the Russian Academy of Sciences and a survey of students conducted during the school's work, to assess the need for demographic knowledge among the audience, which is diverse in its professional and educational composition. The methodological basis of the study is the processing and analysis of data from a sociological survey of students of the School. Research results. The article discusses the results of the conducted School. The analysis of the results of the survey of students, who, thanks to the possibility of remote access to connect to the work of the School, turned out to be more than 400 people (200 took part in the survey, 120 high-quality questionnaires were processed) showed unexpected results. Interest in demographic knowledge was shown not only by students and graduate students of various fields of study, but also by specialists, teachers and researchers. There is traced the relationship between the difficulties of implementing the National Project Demography and the lack of the necessary professional knowledge of the direct executors of the project.