Russian Census (2021)

The Russian Census of 2021 (russian: Всероссийская перепись населения 2021 года, Vserossiyskaya perepisʹ naseleniya 2021 goda, 2021 All-Russian population census) was the first census of the Russian Federation population since 2010 and the third after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. It took place between October 15 and November 14. However, for the remote and inaccessible areas of Russia, the census took place between April 1 and December 20.Постановление Правительства Российской Федерации «Об организации Всероссийской переписи населения 2020 года» от 08 октября 2018 года

The preparations for the census started in 2017 with the adoption of the government decree "On the conduct of the Russian Population Census 2020". According to Pavel Malkov, head of Rosstat, the budget allocated for the 2020 census was 33 billion rubles. The motto of the census was "Create the future!".

On June 25, 2020, Rosstat announced its intention to conduct the main stage of the Russian population census in April 2021, and on June 29 this was confirmed. Due to the spread of COVID-19, the census dates were shifted several times, first to April, then to October 2021.

Pilot census 2018

The pilot census was conducted from October 1 to October 31, 2018. The main purpose was the development and testing of software and methodological, organizational and technological issues of the 2020 Census, taking into account the use of new methods of collecting information. The pilot census was divided into three stages: October 1–10 — online census; October 16–27 — door-to-door rounds; October 27–31 — control walk.

10 territories were allocated for the pilot census, the total population of which was about 550,000 people. These territories include:
* Elbrussky District, Kabardino-Balkaria
* Khangalassky District, Sakha
* Aleutsky District, Kamchatka Krai
* Minusinsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai
* Nizhneudinsky and Katangsky Districts, Irkutsk Oblast
* Veliky Novgorod
* Yuzhno-Kurilsky District, Sakhalin Oblast
* Sviblovo District, Moscow
* Knyazhevo municipality, St. Petersburg
In addition to the census through the State Services portal, for the first time in Russian history, the national postal operator Russian Post was involved in the census. According to the results of the 2018 pilot census, nearly 460,000 households were enumerated in electronic form with more than 1.2 million inhabitants.

Updating the information

In August 2019, in preparation for the 2020 census, work began to update the address lists in cities and rural areas. Based on the work of the registrars, the exact number of houses in each city and their location were determined. Later, Rosstat specialists conducted zoning to form enumeration and census areas. So, thanks to the registrars, a previously not documented village of Yozhikovo was "discovered" in Ruzsky District and two new ones in Udmurtia: Rodniki and Kurtekovo; in Kaluga Oblast more than 35,000 new addresses were recorded.

Questions

The census forms of standard "L", "P" and "V" were approved by the Government. The same questions are printed in paper questionnaires and are used in electronic tablets.

*L-form — designed to be filled in for persons permanently residing in Russia
*P-form — filled in for the premises and characterizes the living conditions of the people
*V-form — filled in for persons temporarily staying in the territory of Russia at the time of the census, but permanently residing abroad.

Format

All inhabited areas were visited by census takers from October 15 to November 14, 2021. They had electronic tablets where the respondents' answers were entered. Residents of Russia also were able to come to the census stations and answer the questions there; the stations also worked from October 15 to November 14. For the first time, there was an opportunity to fill the census form on the portal of public services (Gosuslugi) until November 8. The term for summing up the preliminary results is April 2022. The final results of the census are projected to be published in the 4th quarter of 2022.

Provisional results

Provisional results of the census have been published by Rosstat with further results announced for publication in June–December 2022.

^** — including the results of the federal statistical study " Population census in the Crimean Federal District" with 100% population coverage.

Scheduled release dates for final census results

On May 30, 2022, Rosstat published the following schedule for the publication of the final results of the population census: The current released figures can be found on the Rosstat website.
* June 2022: population by country and by all municipalities in each region
* August 2022: beginning of publication of data in the form of tables and graphs on the Rosstat website
* September 2022: gender, age, education, ethnicity and language proficiency
* October 2022: population migration, information about indigenous peoples
* November 2022: birth rate, household composition.
* December 2022: housing conditions, labor force characteristics.

See also

* Demographics of Russia

References

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