Federal State Statistics Service Rosstat

The main task of the Federal state Statistics Service (Rosstat) is to meet the needs of authorities and management, the media, the population, the scientific community, commercial organizations and entrepreneurs, international organizations in diverse, objective and complete statistical information. To solve it, there is a system of state statistics, which includes the central office at the federal level and the territorial bodies of Rosstat, located in all regions in of the Russian Federation which more than 23,000 employees work.

Management structure

2022: Sergey Galkin - the new head of Rosstat

On May 11, 2022, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed an order appointing Sergei Galkin as the new head of the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat). Sergei Galkin's predecessor as head of Rosstat, Pavel Malkov, was appointed interim governor of the Ryazan region by presidential decree on May 10 instead of the resigned Nikolai Lyubimov. Read more here.

2018: Pavel Malkov - the new head of Rosstat

On December 24, 2018, it was announced that he was appointed Pavel Malkov head of the Federal state Statistics Service (Rosstat) instead, Alexandra Surinova who headed the department for 9 years. More. here

2011: Structure

Below is the management structure in Rosstat as of 2011.

Digitalization

2024

Leaving at her own request Elena Chernyakova

In mid-October 2024, the Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed an order on the departure of Elena Chernyakova from the post of deputy head. The Rosstat document says that the dismissal occurred at the request of Chernyakova herself. More here

Introduction of a statistical platform and artificial intelligence. How is the digitalization of Rosstat

On September 17, 2024, Rosstat presented a strategy for the development of state statistics until 2030. We are talking about the introduction of a statistical platform and the use of artificial intelligence tools.

The goal of the strategy is to develop official statistics. This is the main source of information for assessing the social and economic situation, shaping state policy as a whole, and making management decisions. Thanks to the analysis of big data, it is possible to obtain a complete and reliable picture of what is happening in the country. This helps to better understand the needs of people, their needs, gives entrepreneurs modern tools to improve the quality of strategic planning, on which the sustainability and competitiveness of companies directly depends.

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In Russia, a phased introduction of the state information system "Digital Analytical Platform for the Provision of Statistical Data" is being carried out, which should ensure the interaction of participants in the state statistics system on the basis of a single methodology and information and technological infrastructure. Particular attention is paid to AI-based information analysis systems. With their help, you can not only receive more accurate information, but also analyze it in real time, which makes it possible to quickly make decisions.

As part of the new strategy, it is planned to introduce a data quality standard and begin providing operational information on the basis of a digital analytical platform. The agency will continue to work on reducing the burden on business, as well as on strengthening the position of Russian statistics in the world. At the same time, work is underway to improve technological processes for the collection and processing of data, including using advanced information technology solutions.^[1]

2023

Implementation of satellite technology for agricultural data collection

In early September 2023, it became known about the decision of the Federal state Statistics Service (Rosstat) to introduce satellite technologies for collecting data in the field. agriculture It is assumed that this approach will allow you to receive information more quickly and spend less money on this. In addition, the quality of the primary data and the accuracy of the final figures will significantly increase.

According to the Vedomosti newspaper, Rosstat intends to check the information obtained during the agricultural census with satellite images. Within the framework of the project, it is planned to carry out research work on the relevant topic. Surveys, among other things, should include an analysis of the discrepancy between information on the total sown area, on harvest and on the results of sowing for it, as well as on how many spring sown and how many winter crops have been preserved for grain. 1.3 million rubles were allocated for scientific work. Based on the results of the research, Rosstat expects to receive data on the effectiveness of satellite monitoring, as well as proposals for its use on an ongoing basis.

Rosstat introduces satellite technologies for collecting data in the field of agriculture

Information from satellites and unmanned aerial vehicles as part of agricultural micro-recording in Russia was first used in 2021. Based on space monitoring, Rosstat verified data on agricultural organizations and farms, following which more than 1250 clarifications were made to the census database in 20 constituent entities of the Russian Federation. It is noted that in the current geopolitical conditions, obtaining reliable and complete information on the development of agriculture plays an important role.

The use of satellite monitoring systems made it possible to collect data on hard-to-reach areas, determine land areas by types of use and obtain the most accurate data on farmland, "said Igor Vasiliev, deputy head of Rosstat.[2]

The head of Rosstat told how the digitalization of the department is going on

The Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) is carrying out technological modernization, within the framework of which digital projects are developing and new solutions will be introduced. This was announced at the end of June 2023 by the head of the department Sergei Galkin at a meeting with Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin.

Among IT projects, Sergei Galkin noted the development of a digital version of the Federal Plan of Statistical Work and the creation of a single electronic calendar for submitting reports, the transition to electronic "personal accounts," including on the basis of the State Public services portal, for submitting reports, the formation of a single register of observation objects (respondents) for all departments and a single register of indicators. All this will increase the quality of the collected statistical reporting, simplify work with Rosstat for respondents, and increase the efficiency of calculating various indicators.

Head of Rosstat Sergei Galkin at a meeting with Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin

According to the head of Rosstat, in the future it will be possible to create a "digital profile" of the respondent, which will make data collection smarter, more targeted and reduce time, financial and organizational costs for business and the non-profit sector.

Sergei Galkin also mentioned a project that Rosstat is implementing together with Rosstandart - the development of a national standard for calculating indicators of national and federal projects. This will improve the quality of data-based management and allow assessing the results of national projects, digital passports of each unit of information used to calculate indicators will be created, he said.

Speaking about the directions of technological development, Sergey Galkin also highlighted the implementation of projects related to the modernization of the formats of interaction with respondents and users of Rosstat data. This will make it possible to implement a strategic goal - the transition to a service model of interaction with society, business and the state.

We plan to update the approach to posting information on our website, which now takes us about three to four days. We set ourselves the task of reducing this period to several minutes. Also next year we plan to launch registers of observation objects and a register of indicators, which should provide a smart, targeted collection of information from enterprises, respondents, - said Galkin at a meeting with Mikhail Mishustin.

Rosstat plans to target respondents by key characteristics into several categories - largest, medium and small businesses. Address channels and forms of interaction will be developed and proposed for each category. The goal is to simplify interaction with Rosstat as much as possible, primarily the reporting process. This will be the main step towards turning Rosstat into a service service.

Rosstat conducts technological modernization, within the framework of which digital projects are developing and new solutions will be introduced

It is assumed that at the first stage a project will be implemented to reduce the reporting burden on small businesses. The number of indicators according to which they will report will be reduced to 7-10 general economic and 20-30 industry, depending on which industry the entrepreneur works in. Reporting will be provided through electronic cabinets, which will use all modern friendly interface tools - tooltips, pre-filling of individual lines, reporting calendar and much more.

Speaking about working with the population, Sergei Galkin noted that one of the new forms of interaction with the residents of the country will be the transition to a digital environment where possible. Rosstat has already replaced paper questionnaires with tablets. The next step is to use the Public services portal and online sociology tools.^[3]

2022: New Head of Digital Transformation at Rosstat

On October 5, 2022, Alexey Gorobtsov became the new deputy head of Rosstat - the curator of digital transformation.

2020

Doctor of Technical Sciences headed the digital transformation of Rosstat

On September 7, 2020, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a government order appointing Grigory Ostapenko as deputy head of Rosstat. Earlier, in March, Ostapenko, as a candidate for the CDTO (Chief Digital Transformation Officer) position, took part in a meeting with Mikhail Mishustin with CDTO and other candidates for the CDTO position in federal departments. Read more here.

Development of an AI system for analyzing data from the cash desk and calculating inflation

In August 2020, it became known about plans by the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) to use artificial intelligence. The agency proposed the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications to contribute a corresponding project worth 460 million rubles to the national program "Digital Economy."

As the representative of Rosstat explained to Vedomosti, the service is calculating the consumer price index, that is, it tracks the dynamics of price changes for various types of goods. Data collection is carried out manually: registrar employees bypass stores weekly, and smartphones with specialized software are used to fix prices. 100 items are tracked weekly, 520 food and non-food products are tracked monthly. Rosstat collects data both for large chain retailers and for small specialized stores and markets.

Rosstat is developing an AI system that will analyze data from the cash register and calculate inflation

In an interview with the portal "The Future of Russia. National Projects "Head of Rosstat Pavel Malkov said that the use of artificial intelligence can be useful for structuring a large amount of data obtained from cash registers. Such data is largely unstructured. For example, the Snickers bar in Moscow alone has over one and a half thousand encoding options or an internal name. That is, if you buy the same product in several stores and look at the cash check, then it will be called differently everywhere.

According to the head of Rosstat, the AI system can accurately recognize goods and structure this data. It is expected that in 2021 a significant part of the consumer price index will be calculated using AI, thanks to which it will be possible to improve the measurement of inflation. Its calculation should be carried out on comparable goods and services that are constantly on sale and available to a mass buyer, explained Vera Kononova, an expert at the Institute for Comprehensive Strategic Studies.^[4]

2019: TAdviser interview: Head of Rosstat Pavel Malkov - on technologies for the first digital census in Russia

When conducting the All-Russian population census in 2020 and processing its data, Rosstat plans to use a number of digital technologies that have not been used before. In October 2019, the head of the department, Pavel Malkov, in an interview with the deputy editor-in-chief of TAdviser Natalya Lavrentieva, said that these would be decisions, what they would give to citizens and how they would affect the quality of statistics. Read more here.

2018: Half a billion per census

The state allocated 484.6 million rubles. for the development of the system for the preparation, conduct, processing of materials and obtaining the results of the All-Russian population census in 2018^[5].

This amount appears as the starting price of the contract in the tender of the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat), launched on March 16, 2018. Applications from applicants will be accepted until April 6, 2018.

Purpose of the system

The automated Rosstat system considered here is officially intended for the preparation, conduct, processing of information about the population and obtaining the results of all-Russian population censuses, including trial censuses and even the so-called micro-censuses.

As stated in the tender documents, the system is a single software and hardware complex, combining the means to carry out the work in the preparation stages, carrying out, processing information on the population census, including scanning and recognition of machine-readable forms, entering data via the Internet tablet computers and smartphones, conducting coding and formal-logical control, forming a census database, obtaining summary tables, as well as "other operations, necessary for monitoring all stages of the census, "the authors of the purchase note.

Work Front

It follows from the tender documents that the future contractor will have to develop software already existing in the system for updating the list of addresses written in it, preparing software for collecting the necessary data, for organizing the collection of information about the population, for "implementing methods to supplement and analyze statistical data on the population of Russia based on geoanalytical data in the preparation and conduct" of the 2020 census, etc.

2017: Connection to SMEV and provision of company reports to banks

On December 25, 2017, it became known about Rosstat's plans to disclose the companies' statements to banks around the clock. Such an innovation is designed to facilitate the business process of obtaining loans, experts believe, who are afraid that failures will occur in the system due to the high load.

As Izvestia writes with reference to the chairman of the National Council of the Financial Market Andrei Emelin and a source close to Rosstat, in  early 2018 banks will begin to receive accounting data from Rosstat.

Banks will receive business reports from Rosstat starting in 2018

Banks will be able to receive data from the financial statements of companies in the standard automated mode 24/7. This is important as part of the verification of the solvency of companies. The new mechanism for the exchange of information will start at the beginning of 2018, - said the head of the NSFR.

According to him, by the end  of December 2017, Rosstat's connection with the interagency electronic interaction system (SMEV) is being completed. As a result of the innovation, the amount of data transfer in the system will grow from 5 MB to 1 GB.

According to the deputy chairman of Loko-Bank Andrei Lyushin, the exchange of information with Rosstat will allow financial institutions to protect themselves from the risks of non-payments, and issue loans faster. Connecting to SMEV will help banks in identifying one-day firms, said Ekaterina Shchurikhina, a leading analyst at the Expert RA rating agency. Their reporting of such companies usually reflects small assets, low capital and financial results against the background of high turnover in bank accounts, she noted.

Financial reporting is an integral part of the chain of information used by banks in customer analysis. If in this way it is possible to get rid of the need for the client to provide these documents directly, then this will have a positive impact on the timing of the loan decision, - believes  Alexander Chibisov, director of the credit risks department of SMEs at Binbank.[6]

2010: AS All-Russian Population Census 2010

In September 2010, the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) announced the results of an open competition for work as part of a comprehensive project to develop, implement and maintain an automated system for preparing, conducting, processing materials and obtaining the results of the 2010 All-Russian Population Census (AS VPN-2010).

According to the protocol, only one company became interested in trading - CROC Incorporated, the tender application of which was recognized as meeting the requirements of the documentation. The price offer of "CROC" amounted to 34.95 million rubles. For comparison, the initial cost of the state contract specified by the customer was 34.97 million rubles.

Since no other applications for participation in the auction were submitted before the end of the deadline for their submission, the tender was declared invalid, and the draft state contract, in accordance with paragraph 5 of Art. 27 of the Federal Law of 21.07.2005 No. 94-FZ "On Placing Orders for the Supply of Goods, Performance of Work, Provision of Services for State and Municipal Needs," was transferred to the only tender participant - "CROC."

The purpose of the work under the state contract is to timely prepare for automated processing of VPN-2010 materials, carry out automated processing of VPN-2010 materials at the federal level and obtain reliable VPN-2010 results within the time frame established by the Government of the Russian Federation. As a result of the works, the NP software located at the customer VPN-2010 the regional and federal levels should be finalized. You can read more about the competitive information here.

2000-2002: 2002 Census IT system. Scandal of the Year

In 2000, pilot population censuses were conducted in Moscow, the Moscow region and Vladivostok. According to the specialists of the State Statistics Committee of the Russian Federation, during the trial censuses they studied the market and looked closely at companies that can provide suitable systems for data processing.

The CROC and ABBYY companies participated in the processing of the results of the 2000 trial census. In addition, ABBYY back in 1997 offered the State Statistics Committee its versions of census forms, the use of which, according to its specialists, could greatly facilitate the processing of census results thanks to the use of high-precision handwriting recognition technologies. But the State Statistics Committee did not accept ABBYY's proposal. Lyudmila Eroshina, a specialist at the State Statistics Committee of the Russian Federation, said that the census forms that will be used during the 2002 census were developed before 1997. At the same time, it was decided that the use of text recognition technologies "is completely excluded, since too many errors occur." For example, there are nationalities in the country whose names are too close in spelling (Nenets are Germans). As a result, the processing of the results of the next census, as in 1989, will be carried out using a large amount of manual labor.

About 7.5 thousand coders will replace the entries made in the questionnaires by hand with digital codes (this work will take several months). And then the already encoded data will be processed using computer technology. ABBYY experts argue that their solution allows you to enter data into a computer without precoding, and the improvement in technologies that has occurred in previous years already minimizes recognition errors today.

According to the Deputy Chairman of the State Statistics Committee of the Russian Federation Sergei Kolesnikov, the census forms "were approved by a decree of the Government of the Russian Federation and were the result of the long work of more than two dozen ministries and departments, the scientific community." Compared to the last census, they added questions reflecting new socio-economic and political realities that were not in pre-reform Russia. The All-Russian Census program meets international standards recommended by the UN.

• On November 26, 2001, an invitation to participate in an open tender for the placement of a development order was published in the Competitive Bidding newsletter, implementation and maintenance of the hardware and software complex for the primary processing of materials of the 2002 All-Russian Population Census. The deadline for accepting technical proposals of participating companies was set for January 10, 2002. Market analysts believe that ON about 10 companies operate in the Russian market for text recognition. Some of them cooperate state with organizations whose activities are related to the entry of paper documents into the computer (Pension Fund, Central Election Commission, etc.). Two companies are considered unconditional leaders in this area - ABBYY and Cognitive Technologies. Sergei Kolesnikov said that the State Statistics Committee conducted marketing research on the market for such systems, therefore, the situation in this market was well known to the state customer.

• On December 28, 2001, the tender committee began issuing tender documentation. It was received by 13 companies. Packages with the conditions of the competition contained technical requirements for the system and its economic and statistical description (actual task setting). Goskomstat also put forward some requirements for the companies themselves - participants of the competition: annual turnover of at least $5 million and the availability of licenses of the State Technical Commission and FAPSI.

In accordance with the requirements of the State Statistics Committee, an application for participation in the competition should contain two packages: one with a technical description of the system, the other with economic characteristics (prices). On this occasion, the lawyer of the company "CROC" Lyudmila Kosmovskaya notes: "Such a procedure exists. And, unfortunately or fortunately, when conducting a tender, many organizations demand that the tender be sealed in two different envelopes. "

• January 14, 2002. In the ballot "Competitive tenders" there is an announcement on changing the terms of the tender. The deadline for the receipt of documents was postponed to January 22.

• January 23, 2002. The envelopes with the technical proposals of the participants were opened. According to the competition commission, the procedure was monitored by representatives of all companies that submitted applications for the competition: ABBYY, Cognitive Technologies, CROC, Step Logic. At the same time, the organizers of the competition announced that packages with financial proposals would be opened later, after the procedure for considering, evaluating and comparing technical proposals.

CROC for processing primary information proposed the REDD-M1 system, the foundations for the development of which were laid back in the 90s.

ABBYY introduced technology based on software for automatic information entry from paper forms ABBYY FormReader, based on image recognition and processing technologies used in the ABBYY FineReader system. True, ABBYY did not have licenses requested by the State Statistics Committee. But in her tender application there was information about the subcontractor, the company "iT," which has all the necessary certificates.

• On February 7, 2002, the competition committee tested the operation of all systems proposed for the competition.

• On February 8, 2002, the tender committee decided that CROC application corresponds to the tender documentation. Packages with financial offers remained undisclosed.

• On February 11, 2002, an envelope was opened with a financial proposal from CROC. The services of the CROC, which will supply the State Statistics Committee with its SVOD-M1 system, will cost 51.5 million rubles. This company was chosen as the supplier of the system for the All-Russian Population Census and received a notification of victory in the competition. The applications of the remaining participants were rejected. These companies were returned to the documentation provided by them and undisclosed packages with financial offers.

The presence of two different packages in the application of each bidder created the impression among a number of media outlets that the tender of the State Statistics Committee was two-stage. However, both the state customer and the bidders were initially aware that the tender would be held according to a standard scheme involving only one stage. In this case, according to Oleg Parshin, an expert from the Institute for Macroeconomic Research at the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, the organizers of the competition were obliged to open both packages of applications at the same time.

Andrey Shain, Deputy Director of the IT Department of CROC, is sure that in this competition the price could not play a decisive value. "The price issue is certainly important, but not a determining factor when choosing a product," he said. - The opinion of the members of the expert group consisted of a number of parameters - technical, qualification, price. Each of us regularly makes a choice in favor of this or that product, we look at its brand, quality of materials, cost, and most importantly, we assess whether we can solve the task that we face with its help. It is the latter factor that becomes the most significant, because buying a thing that cannot cope with the task for which it is acquired loses all meaning. "

• On April 16, 2002, the company ABBYY filed a lawsuit with the Arbitration Court of the city, Moscow drawing attention to gross violations in the tender procedure. ABBYY's position in court was represented by Alexander Kolkovsky, a member of the Moscow City Bar Association. In his opinion, during the competition, several violations of the law were committed, and as a result, the competition was actually held on an uncontested basis.

Firstly, the package with the financial characteristics of the system was sealed and allegedly, in accordance with the internal procedures of the State Statistics Committee, was not immediately opened, since its content could affect the opinion of the members of the expert group. Secondly, according to Alexander Kolkovsky, he did not find the voting results in the protocol on the meeting of the competition commission. At the same time, the protocol was signed by senior officials to whom members of the commission report directly. In general, the absence of a provision in the law on tenders on the selection of an expert commission and the introduction of independent experts into it seems to Alexander Kolkovsky a serious flaw. He believes that in this way state customers receive carte blanche when forming a commission, which in itself condones the holding of uncontested tenders. Sergei Kolesnikov notes about this: "The expert commission included specialists who will have to work directly with the technologies that are submitted to the competition. Therefore, technological solutions were chosen, the most convenient for work, effective and inexpensive. "

The lawyer also has claims to other conditions recorded in the tender documentation submitted by the State Statistics Committee on December 28, 2001. This is the value of the company's turnover and the availability of licenses. In his opinion, the turnover does not show the dynamics of the company and its commitment to the latest technologies, so it was worth considering a different indicator, say profit. The condition on licenses generally arose on December 28, and not on November 26, and in ten days no one will be able to obtain such a license. It also pays particular attention to rescheduling and indicates that 45 days had to pass from the date of specifying additional conditions to the last deadline for filing. And who knew on the 28th that the dates would be postponed to the end of January? Perhaps there would be not four participants, but more? The presence of the necessary licenses from ABBYY's partner, iT, remained unaccounted for at all.

• On August 9, 2002, ABBYY's claim was satisfied, and the results of the tender, as well as the contract signed with CROC, were declared invalid. According to Alexander Kolkovsky, regardless of how this case develops, ABBYY has already managed to achieve a lot. "Such precedents will hinder the arbitrariness of officials," he said. "It is extremely important that Russian business learns to protect its interests by civilized methods."

• On August 29, 2002, CROC filed an appeal with the Moscow Arbitration Court. It will be considered after the start of the census. If the appeal is rejected and the decision in favor of ABBYY remains in force, the state will be forced to compensate CROC for all costs and, moreover, compensate for other damage.

• According to the terms of the tender for the selection of the supplier of the hardware and software complex for the All-Russian Population Census, the winner - CROC company - had to determine the specifications of the equipment that should be used in the system. Services for integrating equipment into a single system, setting it up and providing subsequent technical support (service) remained the winner. Subsequently, in accordance with the specifications developed by the CROC, the State Statistics Committee of the Russian Federation held several more tenders for the selection of hardware suppliers. The winner in the tender for choosing a scanner supplier was Pirit with Fujitsu technology. The results of this tender were also subsequently challenged by one of the losing companies - Sibkon. That lawsuit was dismissed. (According to the participants of this tender, Sibkon offered DS scanners - 300 manufactured by the Research Institute of Precision Instruments, created by CROC specialists.) According to Alexander Gukkin, President of Pirit, a contract with the State Statistics Committee for the supply of high-speed Fujitsu scanners has already been concluded.

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