Rural population in the structures of the informal sector in the labor market of the agroindustrial complex

The study of the informal sector and the employment of the rural population in it is based on the Statistics Service database obtained in 2011-2016 as a result of its survey of households and individuals aged over 16 years, commissioned by the Government of the Russian Federation in nine federal districts, including the Crimean Federal District. It reveals that the decrease in the level of rural employment in agriculture and growth in other branches of the agro-industrial complex led to sectoral mobility, the transformation of the social structure of the rural population and the formation of the informal sector, where one-third of the employed were peasants.