Methodological Problems in Assessing the Population's Need for Services

Abstract

The service sphere is one of the rapidly growing sectors of the USSR national economy. In ever increasing measure the need is felt for the scientific substantiation of the goals of development of society associated with the further expansion of that sphere. After all, the more precisely are defined the goals in the attainment of which these branches of the national economy must participate in the future, the more rationally will it be possible to use the resources which society allocates for this purpose.