On New Technologies and Migration Statistics in Russia

Abstract

This article deals with the issues of production technology and dissemination of migration statistics and phenomena that directly or indirectly affect it. The authors raise controversial issues of applying  innovative approaches to different aspects of life, digitalization of the economy. In the search for new types of data, chronic problems of  Russian migration statistics remain in the shadow. Among them are  the lagging behind the global level in primary information collection  technology, the apparent lack of use of available data sources,  inconvenient access to aggregated statistics. An important but not  always positive role in these processes is played by institutional  factors and the lack of awareness of decision-makers about the  potential of information resources under their control with regard to  migration statistics, and about its social significance. The authors  suppose that problems associated with uncoordinated data sources  and difficulties in accessing the information could be overcome. To  this end, the creation of a digital platform that will host sets of data  on migration produced by different agencies, a description of the  methodology for the development of statistics and possibly analytical publications can be discussed within the framework of today’s popular projects related to innovations. It is expected that  the Federal State Statistics Service can act as a coordinator in this work.