Shabdenova Aizhan Bazarkhanovna was born in Almaty, graduated from high school in 1991, and graduated from Almaty Technological University in 1996 with a degree in engineering technology. She worked her way up from an interviewer to the head of the data analysis and processing department at the Center for the Study of Public Opinion. Actively participates in sociological research: from 1991 to 2005 as a freelance interviewer and researcher, since 2005 as a staff researcher. I have extensive experience in the field research department, in the department of qualitative research, in processing and analyzing sociological data. Having extensive experience in sociology, in 2012 she entered the Master's degree program at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University with a degree in Sociology. Winner of the 2014 Republican Student Research Competition conducted by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan. In 2013, as part of the academic mobility program, she studied at the summer school of Essex University, Colchester, UK on the course "Data Analysis and Collection in Social Sciences". During her master's degree, she studied at additional educational courses, which is confirmed by relevant certificates. From 2015 to 2018, she studied for a doctoral degree in Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Social Work of the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. In 2020, she successfully defended her doctoral thesis on the topic "The socio-economic status of single- parent families in a large city", and was awarded a PhD degree.