Average Russian family needs 67,000 RUR to keep up
12 May 2015 (09:19)
May 12, 2015. An average Russian family needs 68,900 RUR a month to live ‘OK’, Romir, a research center says.
‘1,100 urban residents in the representative sampling of the 18+ age group were surveyed in April 2015. They were asked to say how much money they feel a three-person family living in their home town needs a month to keep up with ‘normal’ living standards,’ the center explains.
Just like in the previous years, the two biggest shares of respondents (27% and 28%) chose the 45,000 RUR to 60,000 RUR range and the 60,000 RUR to 90,000 RUR range, respectively. This means that more than one half of Russian families (55%) are prepared to live on 45,000 RUR to 90,000 RUR a month. Every one in five families (20%) can make do with 20,000 RUR to 45,000 RUR and about a quarter of those surveyed (23%) would like to have at least 90,000 RUR a month, with 7% of respondents checking the ‘over 120,000 RUR a month’ box.
Thus an average Russian family’s needs amounted to 68,900 RUR a month in 2015, which was actually 12% less than a year earlier (78,500 RUR) and 10% less than in 2013 (76,500 RUR). In fact, this year’s idea of a ‘sufficient income’ is back to the levels of 2011 and 2012, when monthly budgets came to 62,000 RUR to 65,000 RUR.
‘1,100 urban residents in the representative sampling of the 18+ age group were surveyed in April 2015. They were asked to say how much money they feel a three-person family living in their home town needs a month to keep up with ‘normal’ living standards,’ the center explains.
Just like in the previous years, the two biggest shares of respondents (27% and 28%) chose the 45,000 RUR to 60,000 RUR range and the 60,000 RUR to 90,000 RUR range, respectively. This means that more than one half of Russian families (55%) are prepared to live on 45,000 RUR to 90,000 RUR a month. Every one in five families (20%) can make do with 20,000 RUR to 45,000 RUR and about a quarter of those surveyed (23%) would like to have at least 90,000 RUR a month, with 7% of respondents checking the ‘over 120,000 RUR a month’ box.
Thus an average Russian family’s needs amounted to 68,900 RUR a month in 2015, which was actually 12% less than a year earlier (78,500 RUR) and 10% less than in 2013 (76,500 RUR). In fact, this year’s idea of a ‘sufficient income’ is back to the levels of 2011 and 2012, when monthly budgets came to 62,000 RUR to 65,000 RUR.
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