the Federal state statistics service due to restrictions imposed in the fight against the spread of coronavirus infection COVID-19, was forced to transfer a significant number of employees in a remote work or isolation.
So, in the Central office of Rosstat at work “is regularly present fewer than half of employees in the regional statistical bodies at remote work translated from a quarter to a third of workers,” reported by “Rosbalt” the press service said.
Similar working conditions “affected the duration of the calculations and in some cases required additional verification of the source data and the calculations,” said Rosstat.
In this regard, the Agency had to adjust the time of disclosure. “Given the current circumstances (previously) decided that the information materials of Rosstat will be published at 19:00 (MSK)” — said the press service.
However, on the eve of the Reuters sources said that the time offset of the statistics due to the fact that the Russian government wants as little as possible to draw attention to the statistical data in a pandemic coronavirus and restrictions are becoming more dismal, according to the newspaper “Vedomosti”.
“Rosstat is forbidden to publish the data or require that they at least moved the time. Now trying, at least on the same day, but in the evening, to avoid the morning no news,” claims a Reuters source familiar with the situation.
In particular, may 21 was published data on industrial production for April, and statistics appeared on the website of Rosstat only at 21:00 GMT. At the same time last week a report was published about the situation in the economy in April. However, before this for many years by stat office provided data at 16 o’clock in the evening.
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