Data base, demographic, economic, geospatial data

The database contains demographic, economic, geospatial data for 452 municipalities of the 16 administrative units of the Central Federal District (excluding the city of Moscow and the Moscow oblast) for 2010–2016 (Appendix, Table 1; Fig. 1). The sources of data are the municipal-level statistics of Rosstat, Google Maps data and calculated indicators.

Figure 1.

Map of studied administrative units and municipalities. Source: constructed by the authors

Data package title: Demographic, economic, geospatial data for municipalities of the Central Federal District in Russia (excluding the city of Moscow and the Moscow oblast) in 2010–2016.

Resource link: https://zenodo.org/record/3590379#.Xgp1979S814

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3590379

Data format: xlsx, shape-files

Description:

The data can be downloaded from the online database Demographic, economic, geospatial data for municipalities of the Central Federal District in Russia (excluding the city of Moscow and the Moscow oblast) in 2010–2016.

The data files MUNICIPALITIES_CFD_RUSSIA.zip (16 MB) consists of:

1) Municipalities_CFD_Russia_2010_2016_ENG.xlsx – The database of demographic, economic, geospatial data for 452 municipalities of the 16 administrative units of the Central Federal District in Russia (excluding the city of Moscow and the Moscow oblast) for 2010-2016.

2) MUNICIPALITIES_CFD_RUSSIA_SHAPE.rar – The shape-files for maps construction,

3) Fig. 1. Municipalities ENG.jpg – The map of studied administrative units and municipalities of the Central Federal District in Russia.

The database contains demographic, economic, geospatial data for 452 municipalities of the 16 administrative units of the Central Federal District (excluding the city of Moscow and the Moscow oblast) for 2010–2016.

Excluding municipalities of the city of Moscow and the Moscow oblast from the database is due to the fact that the Moscow agglomeration is soecific in its economic and demographic development (Shatokhin and Tinkova 2010). In addition, the change of borders of the city of Moscow and the Moscow oblast in 2011–2012 requires a separate study of these regions in the period under consideration (2011–2016). (Makhrova and Kirillov 2018).

The sources of data are the municipal-level statistics of Rosstat, Google Maps data and calculated indicators. The statistical data were arranged by the year, the data on municipalities for which there were administrative and territorial transformations for the period under study were excluded (in some cases, the data were provided in accordance with the administrative-territorial demarcation as of 2016).

Municipalities’ websites were used to fill the lack of population information in individual municipalities for some years.

Calculated variables were made to estimate a number of indicators per capita, to introduce additional demographic indicators (e.g. migration inflow rate), to bring price economic indicators to base year prices (2010). For example, indicators of income of the local budget, volumes of investments in fixed assets (excluding budgetary funds), level of wages are modified to a comparable form (to 2010 prices).

The distances on roads in different units of measurement from the geographical center of municipalities to the center of the capital of the region are calculated using the Google Maps database.

Data mapping was performed using ArcGIS software.

Some publications are connected with the database (and its extended version): (Kalabikhina et al. 2018), (Mokrensky 2018), (Kalabikhina and Mokrensky 2017).

Municipal-level statistics of Rosstat (The Russian Federal State Statistics Service), municipalities’ websites, Rosstat data on the consumer price index for goods and services, Google Maps data. Data sources and data description see (Appendix, Table 2).

It is the largest in population federal district of Russia, where a quarter of its population is concentrated. Administrative units of the Central Federal District present the “most demographically depressive” regions of Russia (The Concept... 2009). According to official statistics, within 27 years after the USSR collapsed, the population of Russia decreased by 2.3% (excluding the population of the Republic of Crimea), and the population of the territory of the Central Federal District (excluding the city of Moscow and the Moscow oblast) decreased by 13.1%.

Idea, structure, description of the database — Doctor in Economics Irina Kalabikhina.

Collection, calculation, description of demographic and economic data, registration of the Russian patent for the first version of the database (Mokrensky 2019) — Denis Mokrensky.

Collecting geospatial data, shape-files, maps — PhD Aleksandr Panin.

Database support and development: all authors.

Irina Evgenyevna Kalabikhina, Doctor in Economics, Professor, Head of the Population Department of the Faculty of Economics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, kalabikhina@econ.msu.ru

Denis Nikolaevich Mokrensky, independent researcher, d.mokrensky@mail.ru

Alexandr Nikolaevich Panin, Ph. D. (Geography), Senior Researcher, Laboratory of Complex Mapping of Faculty of Geography, the Lomonosov Moscow State University, alex_panin@mail.ru