Citation
Kozyreva, Polina; Kosolapov, Mikhail; & Popkin, Barry M. (2016). Data Resource Profile: The Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey-Higher School of Economics (RLMS-HSE) Phase II: Monitoring the Economic and Health Situation in Russia, 1994–2013. International Journal of Epidemiology, 45(2), 395-401. PMCID: PMC5007614Abstract
Why was the data resource set up? The Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) was initially created by the G-7 countries in 1992 as a way to obtain objective nationally representative data on the social, health and economic situation in Russia. It was established to mirror a multipurpose survey—the China Health and Nutrition Survey1—and provide in-depth reliable raw data on Russia, accessible for the first time to both Russian and global scholars and institutions. This was instituted in the period following January 1992, when the Russian Federation introduced a series of sweeping economic reforms, including eliminating most food and reducing fuel and other subsidies, using freely fluctuating market prices, privatizing many state enterprises and working to create a growing private sector with private land ownership. The RLMS was created because the existing data, including a Family Budget Survey, were deemed unreliable, and adequate dietary, anthropometric and various other health-related behaviours were not measured in a nationally representative manner. These problems led to the initial Phase I survey of four rounds (I–IV) which was discontinued and is described in Supplement 1 (available as Supplementary data at IJE online). This was the first nationally representative random sample of economic and health data ever collected in Russia, with all earlier sampling based on quotas from enterprises and other organizations. The ongoing longitudinal survey began in 1994 with the Phase II survey. In 2010, the Higher School of Economics (HSE) brought a number of the senior RLMS scholars onto its faculty and began to provide funding for the RLMS. Supplementary funding for subsequent nutrition and health-related data came from the University of North Carolina. At this time a decision was made to change the name to the RLMS-HSE.URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyv357Reference Type
Journal ArticleYear Published
2016Journal Title
International Journal of EpidemiologyAuthor(s)
Kozyreva, PolinaKosolapov, Mikhail
Popkin, Barry M.