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Russian Census (2002)
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Russian Census of 2002 was the first census
of the Russian Federation carried out on October 9 through October 16, 2002. It was carried out by the Russian Federal Service of State Statistics
(Rosstat).
of Russian Federation. The resident population included:
All detailed census tables are for the resident population.
All (resident) participants were asked question on their gender, birth date, marital status, household composition,
bithplace, citizenship, ethnic or tribal self-identification (национальность), education level, language
competence, sources of income, and employment status. A sample of the participants were also asked more
detailed questions about their economic and housing situation.
Foreign citizens present in Russia as employees of foreign diplomatic missions or international organizations, and members
of their household, were excluded from the census altogether.
That included urban population of 106,429,000 (73%) and rural population of 38,738,000 (27%).
The non-resident populations included:
Census participants were asked what country (or countries) they were citizens of. 142,442,000 respondents reported
being Russian citizens; among them, 44,000 also had citizenship of another country.
Among Russia's resident population, 1,025,413 foreign citizens and 429,881 stateless persons were counted. http://www.perepis2002.ru/ct/doc/English/4-5.xls
{| class="wikitable"
Russian Census of 2002 was the first census
of the Russian Federation carried out on October 9 through October 16, 2002. It was carried out by the Russian Federal Service of State Statistics
(Rosstat).
of Russian Federation. The resident population included:
All detailed census tables are for the resident population.
All (resident) participants were asked question on their gender, birth date, marital status, household composition,
bithplace, citizenship, ethnic or tribal self-identification (национальность), education level, language
competence, sources of income, and employment status. A sample of the participants were also asked more
detailed questions about their economic and housing situation.
Foreign citizens present in Russia as employees of foreign diplomatic missions or international organizations, and members
of their household, were excluded from the census altogether.
That included urban population of 106,429,000 (73%) and rural population of 38,738,000 (27%).
The non-resident populations included:
Census participants were asked what country (or countries) they were citizens of. 142,442,000 respondents reported
being Russian citizens; among them, 44,000 also had citizenship of another country.
Among Russia's resident population, 1,025,413 foreign citizens and 429,881 stateless persons were counted. http://www.perepis2002.ru/ct/doc/English/4-5.xls
{| class="wikitable"
Russian Census of 2002 was the first census
of the Russian Federation carried out on October 9 through October 16, 2002. It was carried out by the Russian Federal Service of State Statistics
(Rosstat).
of Russian Federation. The resident population included:
All detailed census tables are for the resident population.
All (resident) participants were asked question on their gender, birth date, marital status, household composition,
bithplace, citizenship, ethnic or tribal self-identification (национальность), education level, language
competence, sources of income, and employment status. A sample of the participants were also asked more
detailed questions about their economic and housing situation.
Foreign citizens present in Russia as employees of foreign diplomatic missions or international organizations, and members
of their household, were excluded from the census altogether.
That included urban population of 106,429,000 (73%) and rural population of 38,738,000 (27%).
The non-resident populations included:
Census participants were asked what country (or countries) they were citizens of. 142,442,000 respondents reported
being Russian citizens; among them, 44,000 also had citizenship of another country.
Among Russia's resident population, 1,025,413 foreign citizens and 429,881 stateless persons were counted. http://www.perepis2002.ru/ct/doc/English/4-5.xls
{| class="wikitable"
!
! Citizens of...
!
|-
| CIS
countries
|
| 906,314
|-
|
|Armenia
| 136,841
|--
|
|Azerbaijan
| 154,911
|--
|
|Belarus
| 40,330
|--
|
|Georgia
| 52,918
|--
|
|Kazakhstan
| 69,472
|--
|
|Kyrgyzstan
| 28,843
|--
|
|Moldova
| 50,988
|--
|
|Tajikistan
|64,165
|--
|
|Turkmenistan
| 6,417
|--
|
| Ukraine
|230,558
|--
|
|Uzbekistan
| 70,871
|--
|Other countries
|
|119,099
|--
|
| Afghanistan
| 8,221
|--
|
| Bulgaria
|2,262
|--
|
| China
| 30,598
|--
|
| Estonia
| 1,066
|--
|
| Finland
| 285
|--
|
| Germany
| 1,329
|--
|
| Greece
|612
|--
|
| India
| 5,351
|--
|
| Israel
| 1,016
|--
|
| Latvia
| 2,864
|--
|
| Lithuania
| 4,583
|--
|
| Syria
|1,230
|--
|
| Turkey
| 4,991
|--
|
| USA
| 1,361
|--
|
| Vietnam
| 22,545
|--
| Stateless persons
|
| 429,881
|--
|}
1,269,023 persons did not report their citizenship.
ability to speak, read and write a language, or only the ability to speak it.
The questions did not distinguish native and non-native speakers,
nor did they try to measure the degree of language competence. For small children, presumably, the recorded answer was based on the language(s) spoken by the parents.
142.6 million (98.3%) of the responders claimed competence in Russian. Other widely reported
languages (more than 500,000 speakers each) are listed in the table below.
{| class="wikitable"
! Language
! Speakers (millions)
|-
| English
| 6.95
|-
| (Volga) Tatar
| 5.35
|-
| German
| 2.90
|-
| Ukrainian
| 1.81
|--
| Chechen
| 1.33
|--
| Chuvash
| 1.33
|--
| Armenian
| 0.91
|-
| Avar
| 0.78
|-
| French
| 0.71
|-
| Azeri
| 0.67
|-
| Mordvin (Moksha
or Erzya
)
| 0.61
|-
| Kabardian or Circassian
| 0.59
|-
| Kazakh
| 0.56
|-
| Dargin
| 0.50
|--
|}
1.42 million responders did not provide language information.
For a more detailed list, see List of languages of Russia.
Census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...
of the Russian Federation carried out on October 9 through October 16, 2002. It was carried out by the Russian Federal Service of State Statistics
Goskomstat
Goskomstat was the centralised agency dealing with statistics in the Soviet Union. Goskomstat was created in 1987 to replace the Central Statistical Administration. While maintaining the same basic functions in the collection, analysis, and publicationand distribution of state statistics,...
(Rosstat).
Resident population
The census was primarily intended to collect statistical information about the resident populationof Russian Federation. The resident population included:
- Russian citizens living in Russia (including those temporary away from the country, provided the absence from the country was expected to last less than one year);
- non-citizens (i.e. foreign citizens and stateless persons) who were any of the following:
- legal permanent residents;
- persons who have arrived to the country with the intent to settle permanently or to seek asylum, regardless of whether they have actually obtained the appropriate immigration status;
- authorized foreign workers or students, provided the period of temporary residence in Russia was expected to last at least one year.
All detailed census tables are for the resident population.
All (resident) participants were asked question on their gender, birth date, marital status, household composition,
bithplace, citizenship, ethnic or tribal self-identification (национальность), education level, language
competence, sources of income, and employment status. A sample of the participants were also asked more
detailed questions about their economic and housing situation.
Non-residents
In additional to the resident population, the census also counted two more groups of people:- Russian citizens currently living abroad for more than one year in connection with the employment with the federal government.
- Persons (regardles of their citizenship) permanently residing abroad, but temporarily present in Russia (as tourists, short-term foreign workers or students, etc).
Foreign citizens present in Russia as employees of foreign diplomatic missions or international organizations, and members
of their household, were excluded from the census altogether.
Census results
The Census recorded the resident population of 145,166,731 persons, including 67,605,133 men and 77,561,598 women.That included urban population of 106,429,000 (73%) and rural population of 38,738,000 (27%).
The non-resident populations included:
- Russian citizens living abroad in connection with the federal government service: 107,288 (67,058 men and 40,230 women);
- Foreign residents present in Russia on the census date: 239,018 (177,465 men and 61,553 women).
Citizenship
being Russian citizens; among them, 44,000 also had citizenship of another country.
Among Russia's resident population, 1,025,413 foreign citizens and 429,881 stateless persons were counted. http://www.perepis2002.ru/ct/doc/English/4-5.xls
{| class="wikitable"
Russian Census of 2002 was the first census
Census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...
of the Russian Federation carried out on October 9 through October 16, 2002. It was carried out by the Russian Federal Service of State Statistics
Goskomstat
Goskomstat was the centralised agency dealing with statistics in the Soviet Union. Goskomstat was created in 1987 to replace the Central Statistical Administration. While maintaining the same basic functions in the collection, analysis, and publicationand distribution of state statistics,...
(Rosstat).
Resident population
The census was primarily intended to collect statistical information about the resident populationof Russian Federation. The resident population included:
- Russian citizens living in Russia (including those temporary away from the country, provided the absence from the country was expected to last less than one year);
- non-citizens (i.e. foreign citizens and stateless persons) who were any of the following:
- legal permanent residents;
- persons who have arrived to the country with the intent to settle permanently or to seek asylum, regardless of whether they have actually obtained the appropriate immigration status;
- authorized foreign workers or students, provided the period of temporary residence in Russia was expected to last at least one year.
All detailed census tables are for the resident population.
All (resident) participants were asked question on their gender, birth date, marital status, household composition,
bithplace, citizenship, ethnic or tribal self-identification (национальность), education level, language
competence, sources of income, and employment status. A sample of the participants were also asked more
detailed questions about their economic and housing situation.
Non-residents
In additional to the resident population, the census also counted two more groups of people:- Russian citizens currently living abroad for more than one year in connection with the employment with the federal government.
- Persons (regardles of their citizenship) permanently residing abroad, but temporarily present in Russia (as tourists, short-term foreign workers or students, etc).
Foreign citizens present in Russia as employees of foreign diplomatic missions or international organizations, and members
of their household, were excluded from the census altogether.
Census results
The Census recorded the resident population of 145,166,731 persons, including 67,605,133 men and 77,561,598 women.That included urban population of 106,429,000 (73%) and rural population of 38,738,000 (27%).
The non-resident populations included:
- Russian citizens living abroad in connection with the federal government service: 107,288 (67,058 men and 40,230 women);
- Foreign residents present in Russia on the census date: 239,018 (177,465 men and 61,553 women).
Citizenship
being Russian citizens; among them, 44,000 also had citizenship of another country.
Among Russia's resident population, 1,025,413 foreign citizens and 429,881 stateless persons were counted. http://www.perepis2002.ru/ct/doc/English/4-5.xls
{| class="wikitable"
Russian Census of 2002 was the first census
Census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...
of the Russian Federation carried out on October 9 through October 16, 2002. It was carried out by the Russian Federal Service of State Statistics
Goskomstat
Goskomstat was the centralised agency dealing with statistics in the Soviet Union. Goskomstat was created in 1987 to replace the Central Statistical Administration. While maintaining the same basic functions in the collection, analysis, and publicationand distribution of state statistics,...
(Rosstat).
Resident population
The census was primarily intended to collect statistical information about the resident populationof Russian Federation. The resident population included:
- Russian citizens living in Russia (including those temporary away from the country, provided the absence from the country was expected to last less than one year);
- non-citizens (i.e. foreign citizens and stateless persons) who were any of the following:
- legal permanent residents;
- persons who have arrived to the country with the intent to settle permanently or to seek asylum, regardless of whether they have actually obtained the appropriate immigration status;
- authorized foreign workers or students, provided the period of temporary residence in Russia was expected to last at least one year.
All detailed census tables are for the resident population.
All (resident) participants were asked question on their gender, birth date, marital status, household composition,
bithplace, citizenship, ethnic or tribal self-identification (национальность), education level, language
competence, sources of income, and employment status. A sample of the participants were also asked more
detailed questions about their economic and housing situation.
Non-residents
In additional to the resident population, the census also counted two more groups of people:- Russian citizens currently living abroad for more than one year in connection with the employment with the federal government.
- Persons (regardles of their citizenship) permanently residing abroad, but temporarily present in Russia (as tourists, short-term foreign workers or students, etc).
Foreign citizens present in Russia as employees of foreign diplomatic missions or international organizations, and members
of their household, were excluded from the census altogether.
Census results
The Census recorded the resident population of 145,166,731 persons, including 67,605,133 men and 77,561,598 women.That included urban population of 106,429,000 (73%) and rural population of 38,738,000 (27%).
The non-resident populations included:
- Russian citizens living abroad in connection with the federal government service: 107,288 (67,058 men and 40,230 women);
- Foreign residents present in Russia on the census date: 239,018 (177,465 men and 61,553 women).
Citizenship
being Russian citizens; among them, 44,000 also had citizenship of another country.
Among Russia's resident population, 1,025,413 foreign citizens and 429,881 stateless persons were counted. http://www.perepis2002.ru/ct/doc/English/4-5.xls
{| class="wikitable"
!
! Citizens of...
!
|-
| CIS
Commonwealth of Independent States
The Commonwealth of Independent States is a regional organization whose participating countries are former Soviet Republics, formed during the breakup of the Soviet Union....
countries
|
| 906,314
|-
|
|Armenia
Armenia
Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...
| 136,841
|--
|
|Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan , officially the Republic of Azerbaijan is the largest country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, and Iran to...
| 154,911
|--
|
|Belarus
Belarus
Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...
| 40,330
|--
|
|Georgia
| 52,918
|--
|
|Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...
| 69,472
|--
|
|Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan , officially the Kyrgyz Republic is one of the world's six independent Turkic states . Located in Central Asia, landlocked and mountainous, Kyrgyzstan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the southwest and China to the east...
| 28,843
|--
|
|Moldova
Moldova
Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked state in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the West and Ukraine to the North, East and South. It declared itself an independent state with the same boundaries as the preceding Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1991, as part...
| 50,988
|--
|
|Tajikistan
Tajikistan
Tajikistan , officially the Republic of Tajikistan , is a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia. Afghanistan borders it to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China to the east....
|64,165
|--
|
|Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan , formerly also known as Turkmenia is one of the Turkic states in Central Asia. Until 1991, it was a constituent republic of the Soviet Union, the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic . Turkmenistan is one of the six independent Turkic states...
| 6,417
|--
|
| Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
|230,558
|--
|
|Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan , officially the Republic of Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia and one of the six independent Turkic states. It shares borders with Kazakhstan to the west and to the north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east, and Afghanistan and Turkmenistan to the south....
| 70,871
|--
|Other countries
|
|119,099
|--
|
| Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...
| 8,221
|--
|
| Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
|2,262
|--
|
| China
People's Republic of China
China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...
| 30,598
|--
|
| Estonia
Estonia
Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...
| 1,066
|--
|
| Finland
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
| 285
|--
|
| Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
| 1,329
|--
|
| Greece
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
|612
|--
|
| India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
| 5,351
|--
|
| Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
| 1,016
|--
|
| Latvia
Latvia
Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...
| 2,864
|--
|
| Lithuania
Lithuania
Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...
| 4,583
|--
|
| Syria
Syria
Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest....
|1,230
|--
|
| Turkey
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
| 4,991
|--
|
| USA
| 1,361
|--
|
| Vietnam
Vietnam
Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
| 22,545
|--
| Stateless persons
|
| 429,881
|--
|}
1,269,023 persons did not report their citizenship.
Language abilities
Among the questions asked were "Are you competent in the Russian language?" (Владеете ли Вы русским языком?) and "What other languages are you competent in?" (Какими иными языками Вы владеете?). As the census manual explained, "competence" (владение) meant either theability to speak, read and write a language, or only the ability to speak it.
The questions did not distinguish native and non-native speakers,
nor did they try to measure the degree of language competence. For small children, presumably, the recorded answer was based on the language(s) spoken by the parents.
142.6 million (98.3%) of the responders claimed competence in Russian. Other widely reported
languages (more than 500,000 speakers each) are listed in the table below.
{| class="wikitable"
! Language
! Speakers (millions)
|-
| English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
| 6.95
|-
| (Volga) Tatar
Tatar language
The Tatar language , or more specifically Kazan Tatar, is a Turkic language spoken by the Tatars of historical Kazan Khanate, including modern Tatarstan and Bashkiria...
| 5.35
|-
| German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
| 2.90
|-
| Ukrainian
Ukrainian language
Ukrainian is a language of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages. It is the official state language of Ukraine. Written Ukrainian uses a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet....
| 1.81
|--
| Chechen
Chechen language
The Chechen language is spoken by more than 1.5 million people, mostly in Chechnya and by Chechen people elsewhere. It is a member of the Northeast Caucasian languages.-Classification:...
| 1.33
|--
| Chuvash
Chuvash language
Chuvash is a Turkic language spoken in central Russia, primarily in the Chuvash Republic and adjacent areas. It is the only surviving member of the Oghur branch of Turkic languages....
| 1.33
|--
| Armenian
Armenian language
The Armenian language is an Indo-European language spoken by the Armenian people. It is the official language of the Republic of Armenia as well as in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The language is also widely spoken by Armenian communities in the Armenian diaspora...
| 0.91
|-
| Avar
Avar language
The modern Avar language belongs to the Avar–Andic group of the Northeast Caucasian language family....
| 0.78
|-
| French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
| 0.71
|-
| Azeri
| 0.67
|-
| Mordvin (Moksha
Moksha language
The Moksha language is a member of the Finno-Volgaic subdivision of the Uralic languages with about 500,000 native speakers. Moksha is the majority language in the western part of Mordovia....
or Erzya
Erzya language
The Erzya language is spoken by about 500,000 people in the northern and eastern and north-western parts of the Republic of Mordovia and adjacent regions of Nizhniy Novgorod, Chuvashia, Penza, Samara, Saratov, Orenburg, Ulyanovsk, Tatarstan and Bashkortostan in Russia...
)
| 0.61
|-
| Kabardian or Circassian
Kabardian language
The Kabardian language, also known as East Circassian , is a Northwest Caucasian language, closely related to the Adyghe language. It is spoken mainly in the Russian republics of Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia and in Turkey and the Middle East...
| 0.59
|-
| Kazakh
Kazakh language
Kazakh is a Turkic language which belongs to the Kipchak branch of the Turkic languages, closely related to Nogai and Karakalpak....
| 0.56
|-
| Dargin
| 0.50
|--
|}
1.42 million responders did not provide language information.
For a more detailed list, see List of languages of Russia.
See also
- Demographics of RussiaDemographics of RussiaThe demographics of Russia is about the demographic features of the population of the Russian Federation, including population growth, population density, ethnic composition, education level, health, economic status, and other aspects of the population....
(includes ethnic composition and some other census results) - Russian Empire CensusRussian Empire CensusThe Russian Imperial Census of 1897 was the first and the only census carried out in the Russian Empire . It recorded demographic data as of ....
- Soviet CensusSoviet CensusSoviet Census may refer to:*Russian Census , which was incomplete*Soviet Census , which only covered urban population*First All Union Census of the Soviet Union *Soviet Census *Soviet Census *Soviet Census...