“To be precise”: official statistics about the number of homeless people are not true

32 homeless people live in St. Petersburg, follows from the census of the 2020–2021 population. In fact, they can be 2 thousand times more, reported by journalists of the project “to be precise” with reference to the study of the Overnight charity project.

How many homeless people got into statistics. According to the latest census in Russia, the number of homeless people in the country decreased six times - from 64 thousand in 2010 to 11 thousand in 2020.

Why official statistics cannot be believed. These census do not correspond to expert estimates, noticed in "to be precise." In 2022, the Overnight charity project appreciated the number of homeless people of 2 million people in Russia and 64 thousand people in St. Petersburg.

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The authors of the study founded calculations on data about the dead homeless people, which Rosstat published.

According to the Federal State Statistics Service, 22.4 thousand homeless people died in Russia in Russia - this number is twice as much as the total number of homeless people from the 2020 population census, they found out in the “night”.

Also, journalists “to be precise” noticed that 32 homeless people could not live in St. Petersburg. For example, the “night bus” “Overnight”, in which the homeless handed out hot food and hygiene products, helped more than 1.2 thousand people in 2022, and 746 people spent the night in the “night shelter” of the project.

What are the problems of official statistics. The authors of the census could incorrectly calculate the number of homeless people, the director of the Moscow branch of the Night Directorate Daria Baibakova in a conversation with “to be precise” suggested.

According to Baibakova, homeless people avoid contact with representatives of the authorities, and scribes searched for respondents in the alleged places of their accumulation, for example at the stations.

“These 11 thousand, apparently, do not include people who live in shelters and social institutions-they are attributed to the population of collective households along with orphans, residents of nursing homes and so on. The census has such people, it is impossible to allocate homeless people from them, ”concluded Baibakova.

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