According to Malkov, the interaction will take place on a commercial basis. The offer to purchase data was
We had meetings with mobile operators. Interaction will be built on a commercial basis: in fact, we are invited to buy this data, like the rest of the market participants.
Pavel Malkov, head of Rosstat
He noted that during the upcoming censusthe data will be used as an experiment. The head of the department emphasized that for now no data received as a result of the census will be replaced with data received from cellular operators.
It is planned that the results of the 2021 census, collected in the traditional way, will simply be verified with the data of mobile operators, and the procedure itself will be tested for use in future censuses.
All-Russian census of 2021 will becomethe latter, where the data collected in the traditional way will be used. The head of Rosstat noted that in the future, priority will be given to other sources, for example, data from mobile operators.
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