CHANGES IN THE NATIONAL STRUCTURE OF POPULATION IN THE SOUTHERN ECONOMIC REGION OF THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA IN THE PERIOD 1979-2014

The present work has as its main objective the identification of the differences in the national structure of the population in the Southern Economic Region of the Republic of Moldova, received between 1979 and 2014 as a result of the politic and economic changes in the country, the knowledge of which plays an important role in the elaboration of strategies for social and demographic development. For the realisation of this goal a few objectives have been settled: the identification and inquiry of the speciality literature that elucidates the subject of investigation; collection, analysis and graphic and carto-graphic interpretation of the data collected based on the information from the National Bureau of Statistics of the Republic of Moldova, through modern means of work, programs for statistical analysis Statgraphics și Instat Plus and the SIG technique; identification and description of the impact of the historical events on the population of the territory and the diversification of the national structure; temporal clause analysis of the statistical data and the emphasize of the modification tendencies in the time lap indicated; description of tha particularities of the national structure of the population at the level of administrative structure in the context of the political and economic changes in that period; appreciation og the complexity of the cohabiting nationalities within the rural localities.