The President recalled that the census helps the state to make more effective decisions
On October 15, relatively speaking, a large population census began. It was supposed to pass last year, but the coronavirus prevented it. Nevertheless, they began to rewrite the remote regions of the country even earlier and will finish with them later than with the main part of the regions.
- The census begins on October 15, and it will last a month, and in remote regions of the country – until December 20, – said Vladimir Putin.
The President recalled that the census helps the state “make more effective decisions in the development of the economy, in social areas such as health care, education, demography.”
- I want to say that this is not a formal matter. In this regard, I remind representatives of the authorities at all levels, from the municipality to the federal, that your duty is to provide assistance and support to colleagues who will carry out this work and volunteers who will take part in it, ”the head of the country said.
You don’t have to wait for the scribes to come home. The questionnaire can be filled out by yourself through the profile on the State Services. Our president did just that.
Despite the fact that the census is undoubtedly a serious undertaking, citizens are given freedom of choice in their answers. For example, you can specify any nationality you want. There are already people who call themselves hobbits and elves. In the last census, there were several thousand of them. Rosstat does not prohibit such options and then includes them in general statistics.
