The state Duma adopted the bill on the population census via the Internet
MOSCOW, 15 Mar — RAPSI. The state Duma at plenary session on Wednesday has approved in the third reading of a government bill, which proposes to organise a national census of population using the Internet and to make mandatory the microcensus.
The bill, in particular, it is proposed to Supplement the existing methods of the survey population a new way of gathering information using the Internet and install additional format of carrying out selective statistical supervision — the microcensus of the population.
This will improve the accuracy and completeness of census results that serve as information basis for demographic and social policy of the state, the report says the government.
The document establishes the procedure for collecting information about the population in electronic form. It defines standards for software, hardware, including storage media, communication channels, means of protection and formats providing data in electronic form. Provides for the approval of the Federal Executive body responsible for the census, and the collection of information about the population in the electronic form and on behalf of the Government of Russia forms and electronic questionnaires.
The bill also proposes that in the period between national censuses should be carried out sampling statistical observations based on sampling at least 5% of the population (the microcensus of the population).