DrS (Econ. Sci.), Head of the Centre for Social Programmes and Risks Analysis, Institute for Social Policy, National Research University “Higher School of Economics”, Leading Researcher at the Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the RussianAcademy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia)
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Russian consumer market : statistical analysis
Social Novelties and Social Sciences № 2(3) 2022
DOI 10.31249/snsneng/2022.03.06
Smirnov S.N. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Russian consumer market : statistical analysis // Social Novelties and Social Sciences. – 2022. – N 3. – P. 91– 100.
Abstract:
The quarantine measures introduced in Russia in the first half of 2020 in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic had a negative impact on the whole economy and its individual sectors. The consumer market was among those hit the hardest. The article gives a quantitative assessment of the impact of quarantine measures on some sectors of the consumer market, analyzes the pace of their recovery in May-July 2020 after a gradual easing of quarantine measures. It is noted that the further developments are difficult to predict due to the general uncertainty of the situation.