Russian Federation
Federal State Statistics Service
MICROCENSUS 2015
– THE FIRST STEP
TO THE RUSSIAN CENSUS 2020
Galina Sheverdova
Deputy chief of Population
Statistics Department
1. Goals of Microcensus
2. Enumeration period and sample of Microcensus
3. Topics of Microcensus
4. Technology of Microcensus
5. Application of Microcensus results for All-Russia
Population Census 2020
1. Goals of Microcensus
Collecting the current demographic and socio-economic information
in-between All-Russia censuses
Producing data for the State Demographic Policy providing
Reevaluation of scenarios options for population projection
Following UN principles and recommendations on conducting
intercensal household sample surveys
The first step to the All-Russia Population Census 2020
2. Enumeration period and sample of Microcensus
Period of enumeration
1 - 31 October 2015
Units of enumeration
Private households
Sample
All regions
979 thousand living quarters
961 thousand private households
2452 thousand people
(1,7% of population)
Field staff
6190 enumerators
1579 instructors
2. Enumeration period and sample of Microcensus
Nizhny Novgorod region
Saratov region
3. Topics of Microcensus
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Relation to the first member of the household
Your sex
Your date of birth
Your place of birth
Your marital status
Which languages do you speak?
Which of these languages do you use in your daily life?
Your mother tongue
Your ethnicity
Your educational attainment
Can you read and write?
Your Sources of livelihood
Which of these sources of livelihood do you consider to be the main?
Have you performed any work for pay or profit in the period from 24 to 30 of September
of 2015?
• Have you sought work during the past month?
• If you were offered a suitable job, could you start in the next two weeks?
3. Topics of Microcensus
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Your citizenship
When and how have you acquired Russian citizenship?
Your previous citizenship
Duration of your residence
Your place of previous residence
Your place of residence in October of 2010
Are you registered in your place of residence?
Type of your registration
What is your place of residence registration?
Are you currently attending an educational organization?
Does the child attend the kindergarten?
What is the reason for the child not attending kindergarten?
3. Topics of Microcensus
• How many children have you born alive?
• How many children, including those you have already:
- Are you planning to have?
- Would you like to have, given all the necessary conditions?
• If you would like to have more children than you are planning to, then to which
extent could the conditions listed below contribute to you having the desired
number of children? (list of various conditions, including one-time and regular
allowances, exemptions, and personal reasons)
• Do you have any chronic conditions that cause limitations of your activities?
• Do you need help from another person in your daily life due to your healthrelated issues?
• Who currently provides you this help?
• Are you currently assessed with a disability group?
• Which disability group are you assessed with?
For usual residents that are temporarily absent for more than one month:
• The period of absence, the reason of absence, place of temporary residence
4. Technology of Microcensus
CERTIFICATE
PASSPORT
RETROREFLECTIVE
BRACELET
BLUE BRIEFCASE WITH
ROSSTAT SYMBOLICS
TABLET
4. Technology of Microcensus
Main screen of software
Main screen for the living quarter
4. Technology of Microcensus
List of household members
4. Technology of Microcensus
Screen of the logical error
List of living units
4. Technology of Microcensus
Federal Level (FL)
Administrator FL
Operator of Coding
Checking
Data Synchronization
Service
Regional Level (RL)
Multiuser Tasks
Specialist RL
Single User Tasks
Data Input and Formal
Logic Control Operator
Administrator RL
Data Input and Formal
Logic Control Operator
Administrator RL,
Specialist RL
Field Level
(Enumerators)
Data Input Software
(Tablets)
5. Application of Microcensus results
for All-Russia Population Census 2020
Detailed and
wide
population
statistics
Full population
coverage
Limitation of
number of
questions
Census
2020
Participation in census should be obligatory
(changing of the Census Law)
5. Application of Microcensus results
for All-Russia Population Census 2020
INTERNET
CENSUS
PART OF POPULATION NOT PARTICIPATED IN
THE INTERNET CENSUS
Census
2010
Address
Database
COLLECTING
DATA BY
ENUMERATORS
10 days
4 days
12 days
5. Application of Microcensus results
for All-Russia Population Census 2020
www.gks.ru
Tabulations
Mapping
Microdata requests
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