The need of supplementing the categories, determining the living standards of Russian population in the conditions of the country's innovative development

There are many ratings of countries based on different indicators - political aspects, economic aspects, education levels, prosperity levels, living standards and so on. But it is the living standards which are the most comprehensive indicators; they include the indices of all other parameters - politics, economics, social and public spheres of any country. In its turn, the living standard is based on the volume of actual income per capita and on the corresponding volume of consumption. However, in Russia the generally accepted indicator of population living standards is an indicator used to assess the level of material wealth-minimum living wage. This is the key indicator in the conditions of innovation-oriented economic development. In terms of innovation- oriented economic development of Russia, it is necessary to expand the consumer basket (transportation costs, utility costs, culture, entertainment and so on) ensuring the spiritual needs of the population in large volumes, but not to the detriment of the other two components (food and nonfood), taking into account the needs of a family as a unit of society, not as an individual. It is also necessary to expand the core group of citizens whose living costs are taken into account (working population, pensioners, children), because in Russia there are also other disadvantaged groups such as single mothers, large families, disabled persons and others, which in most cases belong to the category of low-income citizens and need the independent assessment of their living standards.