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Changes in the living conditions and everyday activities of the rural population in the 1990s
It is already for three decades that a longitudinal study of the rural population of Siberia for their everyday conditions, time use, and activity has been conducted (bi-seasonal surveys were made in 1975-1976, 1986-1987, 1993-1994 and 1999, under methodological, organisational, analytical stability of data collection and processing). In the beginning of the 1990s, the "frontal", mostly extensive-oriented, growth of small family farming on household plots was a continuation of the earlier trend of the second half of the 1980s. It helped the people to survive. In the end of the 1990s the trend has essentially changed: from adaptation merely to changed conditions of life (beginning of the 1990s) to the adaptation to market conditions (end of the 1990s). But the outcome of this transition both for individual families and the country as a whole are at present far from being clear.
