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Russian Empire Census of 1897 was the first and the only census carried out in the Imperial Russia . In recorded demographic data as of . Previously, the Central Statistical Bureau issued statistical tables based on fiscal lists (ревизские списки). The project of the census was suggested by a famous Russian Geographer , chief of the Central Statistical Bureau Petr Semenov-Tianshanski ( Pyotr Semyonov-Tianshansky ) in 1877. It was approved by Tsar Nicholas II in 1895. The census was performed in two stages. At the first stage (December 1896 — January 1897) the counters (135,000 persons: literate soldiers, teachers and priests) visited all households and filled the questionaries, which were verified by local census managers. At the second stage (December 28 ( O.S. ), 1897) the counters simultaneously visited all households to verify and update the questionaries. The data processing took 8 years using the Hollerith Card machines. The publishing of the results started in 1898 and ended in 1905. In total, 117 volumes for 89 '' Guberniya s'', as well as a two-volume summary were issued. The questionary contained the following questions:
In census summary tables, Nationality was based on the declared mother language of respondents. The second Russian Census was scheduled for 1915, but was cancelled because of the World War I . CENSUS RESULTS The results of the census are too broad to publish, but its online Russian version can be found here: demoscope.ru . The total population of the Russian Empire was recorded to be 125,640,021 people (50.2 % female, 49.8 % male). REFERENCE
(This latter work reproduces most of the results of the census, and is a good deal easier to find in western libraries than the original publication) |
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