Socio-demographic factors of the employed population digital skills development

The purpose of the study is to assess impact main socio-demographic characteristics on level development digital skills employed population Russia. contains three stages: a comparative analysis between Russian and EU population; an structure in context gender, age, social professional groups; assessment degree influence Digital employees are classified according International Telecommunication Union (ITU) approach. desired variables obtained by linear regression. Rosstat Eurostat data for 2021 were used as information base. Findings: In Russia, well countries, critical characteristic population. According 2021, Russia comparable countries terms share people who do not have (5% 6%, respectively), exceeds with basic (47% vs. 31%), advanced (31%) almost 2 times behind high (17% 32%). value identification relationship their characteristics, role which decreases, connection lost competencies grow, while becomes stronger. results indicate that higher determined institutional factors labor market.