1. Moscow State University Research Computing Center NCO Center for Information Research University Information System RUSSIA: Database and Value-added Services for Investigations of Life Quality and Economic Welfare of Households and Individuals in Russia Prepared for IASSIST 2006, Ann Arbor, May 24-26, 2006 by Tatyana N. Yudina, Leading researcher, Ph.D. (history) Moscow State University Research Computing Center yudina@mail.cir.ru Anna Bogomolova, Assistant professor, Ph.D. (economics) Moscow State University Economics Faculty bogo@mail.cir.ru

2.  Digital library for research and education in economics and social sciences. In operation since 2000.  More than 2 million documents from 60+ collections of social domain. All the archives are obtained from official holders/producers under legal agreements. Retrospective coverage for most holdings - 1992. Regular update.  The technology for automatic linguistic text processing has been designed and implemented under the project. Provides for holdings content-based integration and cross- search.  Search engine includes thesaurus; several systems of subject headings; bilingual search. Informers-based navigation and query refinement.  Value-added services for assisting research.  Subject-oriented modules.  Free access on registration. University Information System RUSSIA http://www.uisrussia.msu.ru

6. University Information System RUSSIA Holdings 2 000 University Information System RUSSIA Holdings 2 000,000/ 20 Gb (May 2006 version) SourceRetrospect ive Documents Government documents/ State agencies Publication /Kodeks Law Firm 1990-…70,000 +700,000 State Duma daily records State Duma Analitical Department 1994-…150,000 State StatisticsState Statistics Agency; RF Ministries, CIS Interstate Statistics Committee 1998-…100,000 tables Mass mediaExpert weekly; AiF; NG; Izvestia; Vedomosti… 199(7)-…500,000 State agencies analytical reports, Think tanks reports Ministry for Ec. Dev. and Commerce; Central Bank; Accounting Chamber, Russian-European Center for Economic Policy; Fiscal Policy Center 1996-…20,000 Academic publications MSU Bulletins, Economic Forecasting, Sociology Research, Law… 1999-…3,000 +230,000ref +40,000 in English

7. Value-added Services  Archive of RF state statistics. MS Excel format available for all statistical tables;  MS Excel format available for statistical tables, presented in analytical reports and scientific journals;  RF social, economic and budget statistics converted into relational data base format (power tables). Data available at federal, regional, local levels;  Households level statistics for 46 regions in relational database;  Links to the Methodological Notes and Glossary for statistics;  Subject-oriented modules - databases and knowledge products;  Graphics- and maps-based data representation ;  Annotation/short summary complementing each full text document;  Annotation/short summary in Russian complimenting text in English;  Archives and databases in English available with interface and an informer (table of content) in Russian;  User-tailored information update.

8. Subject-Oriented Modules  RF Social and Economic Statistics  Budget System  Agriculture  Demography  Russian Households Survey (NOBUS)  European Court of Human Rights documents  RF: regions, municipalities, households

9. Social and Economic Statistics  All main publications of Russian State Statistics Service (Rosstat). Annual, quarterly, monthly editions since 1996. 100 000 tables, 14 000 graphs and illustrations;  Methodological Notes and Glossary are accessible from each table;  Digital copy in HTML format of Rosstat editions’ printed versions;  Statistics on regions/municipalities - in relational database. 1500 indicators in database;  Graphics- and maps-based data representation;  Knowledge products – government agencies and think tanks reports, academic publications - available for content- based retrieval, exploiting thesaurus and systems of subject headings;  Ontology on “public administration” domain is under construction.

12. Database to integrate budget and socio-economic statistics of regions and municipalities  Incorporates statistics of Rosstat and Ministry of Finance since 1998;  Includes 1500+ socio-economic and 14 000+ budgetary series;  Indicators are grouped into 4 sections: budgetary revenues, budgetary expenditures, deficit, socio- economic statistics;  Value-added services provides for search of indicators, tables designer, maps;  Graph plotting on the base of TeeChart software and new variables computation are coming soon.

13. Database on budget and socio-economic statistics of regions and municipalities. Regions/municipalities choice

14. Database on budget and socio-economic statistics of regions and municipalities. Indicators Choice

16. Database on budget and socio-economic statistics of regions and municipalities. Maps

17. National Survey of Households Well- being and Participation in Social Programs (NOBUS)  Took place in 2003. Made by Rosstat and World Bank  45 thousand households in 46 regions (of 88 regions).  227 variables in 13 sections (general information; household description; marital status and education; labor; pensions; allowances; health; social care; housing; household plots; revenues; expenditures).

20. NOBUS. Descriptives

22. NOBUS. Graphs

23. In Prospect:  Integration of NOBUS with Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey and development of full archive of national surveys and census;  On-line procedures to compute new variables, cross-tabulations, frequencies;  Map and graph services in NOBUS and Database;  New sets of socio-economic statistics in database – monthly and quarterly statistics, federal level data.

24. Thank you! http://www.uisrussia.msu.ruhttp://www.uisrussia.msu.ru Registration available at yudina@mail.cir.ruyudina@mail.cir.ru Maintained as public domain sites http://www.budgetrf.ru http://www.echr-base.ru