The 1926 census in the USSR - the first All-Union census of the Soviet Union, which covered the entire population. The 1926 census began on 17 December and lasted one week for cities and two weeks for villages.
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Being the first thorough all-Union census, it gave the government vital demographic and ethnographic information for policymaking and nation-building. The population size and national composition were important results, showing that Russians made up the largest group, followed by Ukrainians. With methodological approaches, especially the definition of "narodnost" (nationality), influencing policies and possibly manipulating identities in accordance with Marxist-Leninist ideas, the census was also an important event in the shaping of ethnic identities.
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This census was conducted as a survey and took into account the following points:
- gender
- age
- nationality
- native language
- place of birth
- length of residence in the place of enumeration
- marital status
- literacy
- physical disabilities
- mental health
- employment status and industry
- length of unemployment and previous occupation (only for unemployed persons)
- source of livelihood (for those persons who did not have permanent employment)
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- All-Union census 1926 (in Russian)
- Всесоюзная перепись населения 17 декабря 1926 г.: Краткие сводки. Вып. 3: Население СССР / СССР. Центральное статистическое управление. Отдел переписи – М.: Издание ЦСУ Союза ССР, 1927. – 20 с.
- ЦДАВО 582-1-1438. 1926. Сімейні картки по Бердичівському округу Всесоюзного перепису населення.