V rabote proanalizirovany nauchnye podkhody k opredeleniyu kategorii region; vyyavleny printsipy i podkhody k formirovaniyu statisticheskikh pokazateley, kharakterizuyushchikh sotsial'no-ekonomicheskoe razvitie territorii. Rassmotreny metody i instrumenty resheniy v oblasti statisticheskoy otsenki urovnya sotsial'no-ekonomicheskogo razvitiya territoriy; proanalizirovan rossiyskiy opyt kompleksnoy otsenki urovnya razvitiya regiona; izucheny i sistematizirovany zarubezhnye metodiki i podkhody k otsenke urovnya sotsial'no-ekonomicheskogo razvitiya regiona. Provedena differentsiatsiya faktorov po ikh znachimosti v kolichestvennoy otsenke sotsial'no-ekonomicheskogo razvitiya regiona; razrabotana kompleksnaya metodika kolichestvennoy otsenki urovnya sotsial'no-ekonomicheskogo razvitiya regiona, a takzhe otsenki kachestva zhizni naseleniya.