Socio-cultural features of the population of the arctic region and practices of human capital reproduction: is there a connection?

The presented work is devoted to study of the sociocultural characteristics of the population of Arctic Karelia and identification of the connections between these characteristics and practices of human capital reproduction. The information basis was made up of the data from a survey of the population of the region under consideration (n=1042), carried out in the fall of 2023. The tasks of identifying the values of sociocultural characteristics of the population of Arctic Karelia and its territories, as well as identifying the relationships between the values of sociocultural characteristics and the planned measures and practices of respondents in the field of human capital reproduction were solved. Hypotheses were put forward about the connection between the sociocultural characteristics «uncertainty avoidance» and «long-term goal setting» on the one hand, and the characteristics of respondent’s activity on the other hand. Methods of analysis of variance, Kruskal-Wallis H test, Tukey HSD test and Dunnett’s test were used. As a result of the study, the sociocultural characteristics of the population of Arctic Karelia were identified. The assumptions were confirmed that the value of the «uncertainty avoidance» indicator among entrepreneurs is lower than in the group of employees (public sector and private sector), while the value of the «long-term goal setting» indicator, on the contrary, is higher. While the differences in the planned measures for development of human capital between respondents have certain correspondences with the differentiation of sociocultural characteristics, we associate them primarily with characteristics of age groups, as well as gender of respondents. The presented results contribute to conceptual updating of the scientific and information base of the institutional designing of the Russian Arctic and are intended to lay the information and analytical foundations for a general improvement in the quality of governance.