Russian Government Agencies Stop Issuing 385 More Data Sets in 2024, Largest Cutback in Last Three Years, ‘To Be Exact’ Portal Says

Paul Goble
    Staunton, Dec. 20 – Russian government agencies stopped issuing 385 data sets in the course of 2024, the largest cutback in the last three years, although one whose impact was less than might be expected since many of these data sets had not been updated for several years already, Boris Gi of the To Be Exact portal says.
    Sets involving data on especially sensitive issues, such as the state of the economy, crime, and demographic data which permitted analysts to draw conclusions on Russian losses in the Ukraine war, had already been dropped in 2022-2023 or had remained without updates, Gi says (tochno.st/materials/v-2024-godu-rossiiskie-vedomstva-skryli-385-datasetov-eto-rekord-za-poslednie-tri-goda-treker-otkrytyx-dannyx-ot-esli-byt-tocnym).
    Seventy percent of the 385 dropped this year were from only four agencies – the ministry of health, the ministry of industry and trade, the federal highway administration, and the ministry of energy – but other ministries and agencies either dropped whole sets or did not report statistical data in their annual summaries for the first time.
    Some of these cutbacks, however, are serious: Rosstat ended publication of data on production of gasoline and diesel fuel as well as on migration patterns and delays in the payment of workers, and Russian Aviation stopped issuing data on the size of Russian air fleets, while the emergency services ministry issued less data on accidents.
    For a complete list of what data sets have been eliminated over the last 12 months, see admin.tochno.st/static/files/static/tracker-2024-12-12_2024-12-18_14-49-29.xlsx.