Rosstat stopped publishing data on salaries of civil servants, doctors and expenses of Russians on housing and communal services

Data concerning salaries of civil servants and social workers, as well as household expenses, have disappeared from the statistical collections of the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat). The project “To Be Precise” drew attention to this.

According to the project, about 168 datasets - tables that were published in statistical collections of Rosstat - were removed from public access. More than a hundred of them dealt with demographic indicators, while another broad category covered data on household consumption, spending and resources.

For example, almost all data from the “Sample Survey of Household Budgets” (HBS) for 2024, a study that Rosstat conducted quarterly, has ceased to be published in statistical collections. The surveys assessed how much households earned and spent. Based on these data, the consumer price index and poverty indicators are calculated. Data on the share of household expenditures on housing and communal services products and services, as well as on the ownership of durable goods (for example, mobile phones) have disappeared from public access.

Data on the salaries of civil servants and the share of women among them were completely closed. The latest dataset dedicated to these indicators was supposed to be published at the end of last year, but it never came out.

Information about the salaries of workers in the social sphere and science - doctors, medical staff, teachers, kindergarten teachers, college and university teachers, employees of orphanages, cultural institutions and scientists - also disappeared. In the latter case, a message appeared on the platform that the publication of data was temporarily suspended. As To Be Precise notes, Rosstat began notifying about this relatively recently - since last summer. Previously, the agency, as a rule, did not announce the cessation of data publication.

Data on social support measures, or more precisely, on the number of recipients of assistance from the state, have ceased to be updated. The samples took into account not only representatives of socially vulnerable groups (orphans or the poor), but also military veterans. This data is not available for 2024, and in 2023, information on the number of participants in hostilities disappeared from publications. Later, restrictions presumably also included indicators by which one can indirectly judge the birth rate (the number of pregnant women and recipients of maternity capital), as well as data on the number of funeral payments, from which conclusions can be drawn about the mortality rate in the country.