“We’re not the only country that has taken such a decision. Statistical services of a number of countries also announced the postponement of the census the following year. Including USA, Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Kyrgyzstan and some others,” commented gold.
For the census you need to spend a lot of preparatory activities – selection and training of personnel, testing of information systems. The postponement will allow Rosstat to properly prepare and to compensate for the big break that occurred in the work because of the pandemic.
At the same Malkov noted that in remote villages the census will begin in October of this year.