STATISTICAL SURVEYS IN THE STEPPE REGION IN THE LATE XIX - EARLY XX CENTURIES: REGIONAL PROJECTS AND PRACTICES

Abstract

Since the end of the 19th century, the need for statistics has increased significantly. On a regional scale, statistical committees were encouraged to draw up programs and conduct censuses of settlements, improve methods for collecting population information. The definition of the population in the Steppe Territory had its own characteristics, as well as certain difficulties. For the census, it was necessary to take into account the time of the year, climatic, political, trade, family conditions, crop yields, a constant change of water sources, which forced the nomadic people to often change their places of wandering, and sometimes their wintering places. Given the features of the administrative structure in the Kazakh steppes, the specifics of nomadic farms, the regional statistical services revised many forms of the Central Statistical Committee and compiled their own ones.