Bobkov V.N., Gulyugina A.A., Odintsova Ye.V. Minimum consumer basket: what should it be in today’s Russia? Russian Economic Journal, 2020, No.1. pp. 54-73.

Abstract

The article argues for a proposal for such a step in the direction of strengthening social support for the least protected groups of the Russian population and the development of the entire system of social state guarantees as a whole, as the introduction of a socially acceptable consumer basket instead of a consumer basket of the subsistence minimum. The advantages of the normative method of forming consumer baskets over the normative-statistical method are revealed. Based on the analysis of actual consumption of both food and non-food products and services, the qualitative and quantitative structure of the socially acceptable consumer basket is determined (using natural and value indicators).