Information constituent of the sources of statistical information for the needs of social policy in the current conditions.

One of the main functions of the modern state is the development and implementation of social policy, formulation and implementation of which requires high-quality information support (which constituent is statistical information). This would contribute to the adequate management both at the national and regional levels. The national science of public management did not pay much attention to studying the sources of the statistical data required as an information base to support state social policy. The following sources are the most informative and qualitative in terms of developing the data to support social policy with statistics: population censuses, household sample surveys, subject-matter (module) surveys, the existent statistical reporting, and administrative data. Based on information obtained from the sources reviewed, the state statistics bodies develop quite a wide range of statistical data that comprehensively characterize different aspects of life covered by social policy, in particular, with respect to the total size and composition of population, mortality and birth rates, life expectancy, employment and unemployment, labor demand and supply, economic activity and wages, income and expenditures of population, living standards of citizens, per capita incomes, educational attainment of the population, morbidity and medical care, living conditions, etc. However, these sources differ in coverage and frequency, complexity, cost, quality and timeliness of data and have both advantages and disadvantages, so we believe that they should complement each other. In addition, in order to develop statistical information to satisfy the needs of social policy, it is advisable to supplement them with such source of information as administrative electronic registers, which are hardly used in Ukraine nowadays since they are autonomous and operate under different standards. Social statistics widely uses six of the above mentioned sources, while the register of natural persons, including population register, is not applied. Thus, it is quite timely to establish the unified population register, which primarily requires the adoption of appropriate political solutions, study of the relevant experience of developed countries by national experts, development of the necessary legal framework, concept and feasible mechanism of its creation and protection of personal information.