Informatisation of society and family budgets of the Russians

In this article the term of information family budget denotes above all a totality of budget expense items with their particular filling, which is evaluated with the account of purchasing and use of ICT devices and services. Evaluation of the information family budget is made taking into consideration the character of connections and contacts, including not only the part of a family living in the same household but the whole family as a multi-generation and spatially dissociated unit. According to the data from a survey of average-income Moscow families, which was conducted in 2007 and 2009, expenses of most surveyed families on information goods and services made from 7.0% to 18 % of their total expenditure. The share of ICT in family expenses is comparable only with the share of nutrition that usually exceeds other expenses. Here are also used the data from a special inter-regional survey conducted by ISESP RAS in 2010. The article proposes methods for evaluation of the information component in total family budget.