Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name:Marina Turuntseva Author-Name-First: Marina Author-Name-Last: Turuntseva Author-Workplace-Name: Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy Author-Name:Tatiana Kiblitskaya Author-Name-First: Tatiana Author-Name-Last: Kiblitskaya Author-Workplace-Name: Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy Title: Qualitative Specifics of Various Approaches to the Estimates of the RF Socio-Economic Indicators Abstract: Government, business R&D organizations are currently publishing many short-, medium- and long-term forecasts. Herewith, the consumers of such information, as a rule are not aware of the way the estimates were made. As a result, when making a choice, which forecast should the most trustful, the consumers cannot proceed from the method of forecasting. The paper proposes an approach that allows, using fairly simple methods to conduct a comparative analysis of the quality of estimates obtained by different models. Year: 2010 Issue: 135P File-URL: http://www.iep.ru/files/RePEc/gai/rpaper/78Turuntseva.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf File-Function: Revised version, 2012 Classification-JEL: C12, C13, C16, C51, C52 Keywords:Socio-Economic, Indicators, Russian Federation Handle: RePEc:gai:rpaper:78 Language:ru