Abstract:
Social indicators of a living level of the population of Kazakhstan for the last ten years of the 20th century are
considered in this article. One of the most important tasks of social policy is the problem of growth of level
and quality of life of the population. In Kazakhstan, as well as on all former Soviet Union during a transition
period there was a sharp falling of a level of living of the population; all social infrastructure was almost destroyed.
Certainly, it was connected with crisis of economy and lack of concrete social policy. The level of
living is rather difficult and many-sided category. In spite of the fact that many elements of living standards
are interconnected among themselves, they have considerable features, specifics and their complex characteristic
requires use of the corresponding system of specific indicators. Due to the lack of a rational way of association
of diverse indicators of such system in a certain uniform indicator in domestic and international practice
the impossibility of use of one indicator which is comprehensively characterizing a level of living is recognized.
