This must put the Russians ahead of the US Bureau of Statistics in terms of
dealing with race and ethnicity and ahead of both the US and the UK in terms
of speed of production of Census results.   The Russian census was conducted
just a year ago in Oct 2002.

And the Russians don't complain of falling response rates having managed to
increas the estimate based on demographic projection by nearly two millions.

Ray Thomas
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RUSSIANS PULL OFF A CENSUS SURPRISE

MOSCOW, October 29 (RIA Novosti political analyst Andrei Kislyakov) -
Goskomstat, or Russia's State Statistics Committee, has released the
results of the initial automatic reprocessing of the 2002 national census
reports. Perhaps the biggest news is that there are more Russians than less
accurate surveys and estimates had led us to believe.

The overall population turned out to be 1.8 million people more than the
previous estimated number. Russia's population has decreased by exactly 1.8
million since the 1989 census, but not the 3.6 million or more as had been
reported earlier.

Russia's permanent population stands at 145.2 million, 106.4 million, or
73%, of whom are urban residents, while 38.8 million, or 27%, are rural
dwellers.

Russia is the seventh most populated country in the world after China with
a population of 1.285 billion, India (1.025 billion), the USA (286
million), Indonesia (215 million), Brazil (173 million) and Pakistan (146
million).

The urbanisation process has halted in Russia, like in the majority of the
developed countries. The city and rural residents ratio has not changed
since the 1989 census. Nearly one fifth of Russian nationals live in 13
cities, whose population exceeds one million, namely Moscow, St Petersburg,
Novosibirsk, Nizhni Novgorod, Samara, Omsk, Kazan, Chelyabinsk,
Rostov-on-Don, Ufa, Volgograd and Perm. Indeed, Moscow is one of the
world's 20 biggest cities.

Russia is home to people of more than 160 ethnic origins. The latest census
was remarkable since it recorded people's ethnic origin as they described
it. This happened for the first time in Russian history.

As many as over 800 ethnic groups were registered during the census. Seven
major peoples inhabiting Russia - the Russians, Tatars, Ukrainians,
Bashkirs, Chuvashs, Chechens and Armenians - number more than a million
people each.

There are 67.6 million men and 77.6 million women in Russia, i.e. for every
1,000 men there are 1,147 women, according to the census results. The
numerical superiority of women over men begins at the age of 33.

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