Rostovskaya T.K., Shabunova A.A., Rychikhina N.S. (2025). Professional standard “Demographer”: From the qualifications of specialists to effective decisions in demography. Economic and Social Changes: Facts, Trends, Forecast, 18(1), 66–79. DOI: 10.15838 ...

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Abstract

To resolve various strategic and tactical tasks in government and regional agencies, units of municipalities, analytical centers and other non-profit organizations, demographers with considerable expertise are required who can efficiently build and study analytic demographic databases, prepare resources for the development of demographic plans, identify demographic trends, conduct expert examinations of economic and socially significant programs. However, it has been difficult for a long time to assess professional qualifications of specialists in demography in order for them to perform their functions efficiently due to the insufficient number of such specialists and their mixed functionality. Departments and centers of demography opened in leading Russian universities helped resolve this issue. It was the appropriate moment to approve the professional standard “Demographer”, which clearly states knowledge, skills and abilities of a demographer at a certain qualification level and functions to perform. However, organizational and methodological issues related to assessing the quality of received training in demography to perform job functions, depending on the position and the organization in which the specialist works or plans to work, require particular attention, which determines the relevance of the studied topic. The aim of the research is to develop organizational and methodological aspects of the process of assessing professional qualifications of specialists in demography for the qualitative performance of their functions and solving issues of society. The article describes the process of assessment of professional qualifications of specialists in demography by the personnel of the Qualification Assessment Center by conducting an examination that allows assessing not only theoretical knowledge, but also skills and abilities of candidates for the qualification; the importance of using a competence approach as a base for assessing qualifications of demographers is substantiated. As part of the organizational and methodological support for the examination to assess professional qualifications of specialists in demography, recommendations are proposed for the document support of the examination, arrangement procedures of the examination, rules of conduct during the examination, requirements for examinees to pass the examination and obtain a certain qualification level as a demographer. It has been revealed that the increasing qualifications of demographic workers provide higher wages and demand for these specialists in the labor market; a demographer’s career chart has been constructed, showing the relationship between the qualification level, position, and wages. The methodological basis is represented by the fundamental provisions of the concept of managerial training. The prospects of the study are to improve the quality of training and assessment of professional qualifications of specialists in demography, which will further influence the effectiveness of creation and implementation of projects for the development of human potential in Russia To resolve various strategic and tactical tasks in government and regional agencies, units ofmunicipalities, analytical centers and other non-profit organizations, demographers with considerableexpertise are required who can efficiently build and study analytic demographic databases, prepareresources for the development of demographic plans, identify demographic trends, conduct expertexaminations of economic and socially significant programs. However, it has been difficult for a longtime to assess professional qualifications of specialists in demography in order for them to perform theirfunctions efficiently due to the insufficient number of such specialists and their mixed functionality.Departments and centers of demography opened in leading Russian universities helped resolve this issue.It was the appropriate moment to approve the professional standard “Demographer”, which clearlystates knowledge, skills and abilities of a demographer at a certain qualification level and functions toperform. However, organizational and methodological issues related to assessing the quality of receivedtraining in demography to perform job functions, depending on the position and the organization in whichthe specialist works or plans to work, require particular attention, which determines the relevance of thestudied topic. The aim of the research is to develop organizational and methodological aspects of the processof assessing professional qualifications of specialists in demography for the qualitative performance oftheir functions and solving issues of society. The article describes the process of assessment of professionalqualifications of specialists in demography by the personnel of the Qualification Assessment Center byconducting an examination that allows assessing not only theoretical knowledge, but also skills and abilitiesof candidates for the qualification; the importance of using a competence approach as a base for assessingqualifications of demographers is substantiated. As part of the organizational and methodological supportfor the examination to assess professional qualifications of specialists in demography, recommendationsare proposed for the document support of the examination, arrangement procedures of the examination,rules of conduct during the examination, requirements for examinees to pass the examination and obtaina certain qualification level as a demographer. It has been revealed that the increasing qualificationsof demographic workers provide higher wages and demand for these specialists in the labor market; ademographer’s career chart has been constructed, showing the relationship between the qualificationlevel, position, and wages. The methodological basis is represented by the fundamental provisions ofthe concept of managerial training. The prospects of the study are to improve the quality of trainingand assessment of professional qualifications of specialists in demography, which will further influencethe effectiveness of creation and implementation of projects for the development of human potential inRussia