Socio-economic portrait of parents with many children (on the example of the Komi Republic)

The paper presents a socio-economic and demo-graphic portrait of parents with many children in the Komi Republic, aged 25-49, based on the results of 2017 sociological survey on determining the level and quality of life of the population of the northern region. In order to study the total sampling size, 70 respondents having three or more children, aged 25-49, were select-ed. To compare the data obtained on some is-sues, a comparison with the results of the sur-vey as a whole for the entire group of respondents aged 25-49, without taking into account the number of children, was made. The study allowed us to make a number of conclusions. All three types of reproductive attitudes in large families are at a high level and correspond to extended type of reproduction. The highest is the average desired number of children. Among the large families, there are fewer people with higher education than in the whole array of respondents, and more of those with secondary special education. The housing problem is acute for a significant part of large families: almost a third of large families have cramped housing conditions. 40% of parents with many children, with all the desire to improve their housing conditions, cannot afford it in the near future. Low personal incomes (taking into account wages and other sources) are twice as likely to have large families than the general population, without taking into account number of children. The average per capita incomes of families differ significantly depending on the level of childbearing – due to the growing de-pendency burden on the budget. The most disturbing fact is that four out of ten families with three or more children have an average per capita income below the subsistence minimum in the Komi Republic. At the end of the paper, recommendations for improving the financial situation of families with three or more children are proposed.