Pavel, what is the amount provided in the budget for the census?
Pavel Smelov: is big Enough. The government understands how important data that will be collected for strategic decision-making. However, from the moment when the decision to conduct the census was taken, the amount has significantly decreased. About 3-4 years ago was supposed to go to 65 billion rubles. After it was decided to use the tablet and the portal, the amount decreased to 31 billion. Primarily due to the fact that significantly reduced personnel costs – the number of census takers has decreased by more than a third. No need to print huge runs of census forms, and then spend additional resources to scan and verify the correctness of input data.
the postponement of the census funding did not change. More we were not given money, but did not pick up. We have optimized costs, look at what you can save. Think that 31 billion rubles is a large sum, many people do not understand why the government spends the money. Indeed, the Russian census is one of the cheapest in the world. If we divide this amount by the population, everyone will be able to buy one bottle of champagne.
In the census two major cost items. Purchase of tablet computers – about eight billion rubles. Remuneration of employees – about 14 billion rubles. This amount will go to the people and the economy of the country.
The census in 2021 will differ from the 2010 census?
Pavel Smelov: this will be widely used in information technology. We will be practically no paper questionnaires, all enumerators will receive the tablets, they will enter data. Also everyone will be able to fill out a questionnaire on themselves and their family members on the portal of public Services. Many people in pandemic fear unnecessary contact.
a selection of the portal of public Services is obvious – it was virtually all able-bodied population of the country, the majority of pensioners and young people.
Added a new block of questions concerning labour migration. Previously we just asked if he works or not. Now there will be questions relating to the place of work, its nature – whether a long trip, for example, watch or work crew, daily travel outside of the settlement where the Respondent lives. We can understand how we have a mobile population and a developed internal labour migration. This will allow local authorities to assess the effectiveness of the existing transportation network and to understand how to plan the development of the labour market. For example, whether to concentrate large enterprises in one place.
Blah��Odra the use of digital technologies in the twice reduced the period of providing the results of census data on the population of the entire country and in separate regions will be announced three months after the end of the campaign.
Which is faster – talk to the scribe or to complete their questionnaire independently on the portal “public Services”? Many people wonder: won’t the data from the Internet to the fraudsters and there is a guarantee of anonymity?
Pavel Smelov: Time, probably both will take the same amount of time. The questionnaire alone. A citizen can easily Orient in the electronic questionnaire – there will be plenty of hints, provided the function to save the questionnaire and return to the filling later. As for security, we do not collect personal information, do not record the surname, name, patronymic, passport data of the Respondent. On the portal of public Services people actually fills in the questionnaire anonymously. There was not a single case of hacking of government Services and information leaks. While talking about the leak in the census or, after summing up the results always arise.
How many copyists will be involved in the census campaign? Shrink if the number in connection with the computerization of the process?
Pavel Smelov: Busy will be 360 thousand people – census personnel. In 2010 there were more than 600 thousand.
If a person fills in the questionnaire on the portal, it will still come the scribe?
Pavel Smelov: this will likely not come. Provides data synchronization with SPPS. Once the citizen has filled out the questionnaire on the portal, the information will appear in our information system and will be reflected in the job assignment on the tablet of the scribe. He will see at a given address, the questionnaire filled. But there is another side of the issue. This address can live for someone else. It is therefore possible that the scribe is still to come. For example, to ask if family members filled the questionnaire. In addition, he may ask to scan the QR-code, which will get filled in the questionnaire.
What are the steps to be taken in connection with the pandemic?
Pavel Smelov: We focus on opportunities to remotely census. During the quarantine, people are increasingly using online services. If need be, we scribes will provide masks, gloves and disinfectants.
what is the tablet of the scribe? When the device goes to the regions?
Pavel Smelov: It’s a tablet, is a mobile working place of the scribe. In fact, it was developed a powerful software system that provides protection of the information collected. It installed Russian operating system “Aurora” and software. The tablet downloaded the questionnaire, the list of addresses can be downloaded and a map of the area, there is a red button – emergency call in case of a threat to the scribe. Thanks to the tablet, you can track the movement of employees, their location is a guarantee of their safety and quality of work.
the Equipment will go to the regions until December 1, 2020. The first batch is expected in October, when the census in remote areas. 36 thousand tablets after the census staying with us, will use them in their daily work. The rest will give to other agencies after resetting the available information.
will Not cause any problems the work on the tablet people older?
Pavel Smelov: We will train the enumerators. Usually involved in the census campaign, the young people, but older people with pleasure participate in it. For training developed online course that will be available to people of all ages. Study computer literacy, conducted by Rosstat in the end of last year, showed that our moms and dads, and grandparents are now actively exploring the virtual world – it is among older age groups, the highest growth rate of mobile Internet usage, instant messengers, online services of household character. State transfers in many online services whom are retired.
At the census in 2010, some Russians define themselves as elves, hobbits, goblins, orcs, Teutons, Huns. How to deal with it?
Pavel Smelov: to Fight it don’t, it’s pointless. This is not a mass phenomenon. These pranksters all over the country had 1024 man from 147 million. The census provides the opportunity to hear, to understand, to learn, how they perceive themselves. And no need to ban anything. Similar cases are recorded in any country during the census.
Why is it important to take seriously this process, and to provide truthful information about yourself?
Pavel Smelov: We believe according to the census of the permanent population: who lives in this area, regardless of registration. For example, people in one district is not enough kindergarten, and according to official data there are only three child. It is very important to record the number of people and their ages. With this information, the state will work with the population. It is important to obtain information on the housing conditions of the people. For example, the private sector in the Crimea. Still not had time to register the ownership of houses within the building. The census will help to determine when and from what was built at home, the conditions in which people live. I must say that we do this data transfer will not. .
all-Russia population census was postponed from October 2020 April 2021-th. This is due to the impossibility, because of the pandemic coronavirus to undertake preparatory activities – selection and training of personnel, test equipment, etc. In the last population census held in Russia in 2010, in Crimea in 2014, after the reunification of the Peninsula with Russia.
In the Crimea during the census will involve about six thousand scribes: in the Republic of Kazakhstan 4,7 thousand people, in Sevastopol – 1.2 thousand people, said the head of Cristata Olga Baldin. In 2014 there were nine thousand.
