About the project

Inventory of openness of the official statistical data in Russia “ODIN Russia”

The project on inventory of the openness of official statistics ODIN Russia is carried out by the All-Russian Public Organization "Russian Association of Statisticians" (RASt). It is methodologically and organizationally linked to the global Open Data Inventory (ODIN) project which is conducted by US-based nonprofit and non-governmental organization Open Data Watch (ODW).

 

The project description

The goal of the ODIN Russia project is to conduct an inventory of official statistical data published on the websites of Federal Statistical Service (Rosstat) and other Russian Government agencies in order to ascertain their compliance with the internationally recommended standards of coverage and openness. The inventory is conducted by independent volunteers under the supervision of RASt, and statistical officials receive information about the results only after the inventory process has been completed. The project is financed exclusively from the RASt's own resources and is not linked with any program on data openness or the development of official statistics carried out or funded by the Government of the Russian Federation.

The inventory is carried out according to the methodology and the system of criteria developed by ODW. The details of the methodology are available here. The consistency of the methodologies makes the results obtained by the RASt comparable to the results of the global ODIN project. However, the RASt takes into account not only the data published by the National statistical office (Rosstat), as ODW usually does, but also the results published on the websites of other agencies participating in the national statistical system of Russia, such as Central Bank, Ministry of Finance, etc., therefore the results of ODIN Russia are more comprehensive for our country than the standard ODIN results. ODW and RASt consult each other on methodology and results, but RASt publishes the results of the inventory for Russian Federation by itself and is fully responsible for them.

 

Using the ODIN Russia results

Individuals and institutional units can  (repeatedly)  use the data placed on this site free of charge and without restriction of the territory and time of use;  ODIN Russia results can be copied, published, modified and combined with other information, be used for non-commercial and commercial purposes.

Users are required to:

Use ODIN Russia results only for lawful purposes;     

Do not distort results when using them;

Make reference to the source of information.

 

Command

  • Prof. Alexey Ponomarenko, project scientific supervisor, Director of The International Institute of Professional Statistical Education of The Higher School of Economics (HSE MISO), Moscow

    “This project has a great future. Its results are in demand. They are original and reliable. They can be checked by everyone. The team is young and ambitious. We are well aware of which direction to move in"

  • Kirill Zaikov, project manager, assistant professor of The Novosibirsk State University of Economics and Management, Chair of Statistics, Novosibirsk

    «Due to my work which includes the statistical analysis of social and economic processes, I have been frequently involved in the search and processing of official statistics. Unfortunately, it was not always easy and quick to search. Participation in the ODIN. Russia project has allowed me to better understand Russian statistical system and to contribute to its improvement”

  • Anna Bulkina, post graduate student of The Novosibirsk State University of Economics and Management, Chair of Statistics, Novosibirsk

    “Daily searching for data, I was always interested in how much the official statistics is able to cover all areas of our life. ODIN.Russia project is an excellent opportunity to understand what is lacking in Russian statistics for comprehensive support of managerial decisions”

  • Ruslan Aktalchikov, student of The Orenburg State University, Department of Statistics and Econometrics

    “My scientific supervisor, prof. Vladimir Nikolaevich Afanasiev has pushed me to participate in ODIN.Russia, and I am extremely grateful to him for that. Since statistics is the area of my scientific activity, I am interested in obtaining complete, reliable and open statistical information. And this project is aimed at helping to increase the level of openness and coverage of official statistics”