Geographies of deprivation in Russian Federation

  • keywords: spatial analysis, poverty mapping, material deprivation, multidimensional poverty, place

A spatial assesment of geographies of material deprivation in selected Russian regions: Karelia, Nizhni Novgorod and Samara.. Analysis based on 2002 and 2010 census data that provides information on household material living conditions down to communities size of 5 housholds. This data on living conditions will be analysed in geographical reference system allowing spatial modelling and linking with other sources of place based data. Open census data is an unique resources for such analysis. Paper may be linked with Russian energy research active here at the Aleksanteri institute through recent some recent new index as Measuring energy poverty: Focusing on what matters