Socioeconomic Variables for 50 Russian Provinces
1897 and 1926
Col. No. Description
1- 24 Oblast name
25- 29 1 Proportion of population in agriculture, 1897
30- 34 2 Proportion of peasants in the population, 1897
35- 39 3 Number of book stores per population, 1902
40- 44 4 Land price, 1889
45- 49 5 Estimated female life expectancy, 1897
50- 54 6 Proportion of urban population in cities of +50,000 in 1897
55- 59 7 Proportion of population in cities of +50,000 in 1897
60- 64 8 Proportion of urban population in cities of +50,000 in 1926
65- 69 9 Proportion of population in cities of +50,000 in 1926
70- 74 10 Proportion Moslem in 1897
75- 79 11 Proportion Orthodox in 1897
80- 84 12 Proportion Catholic in 1897
85- 89 13 Proportion Jewish or Protestant in 1897
90- 94 14 Proportion of professional workers in the population, 1897
95- 99 15 Number of transport and communication workers per 1000 in 1897
100-104 16 Cultivated land per capita in 1881
105-109 17 Population density in 1897
110-114 18 Female proportion western in 1897
115-119 19 Female proportion eastern in 1897
120-124 20 Workers in secondary industry per 100,000 population in 1897
125-129 21 Log of average city size in 1897
Note:
Calculation of average city size: Urban centers were listed in
descending order of population size; the population was then
cumulated. Average city size = population of the city that carries
cumulation past 50% of total urban population of the province.
130-134 22 Population per village
Urban + rural nationality percentages for females, 1897,
European Russia
135-139 23 1 - Great Russian
140-144 24 2 - Ukrainian
145-149 25 3 - White Russian
150-154 26 4 - Latvian + Estonian
155-159 27 5 - German
160-164 28 6 - Polish
165-169 29 7 - Jewish
170-174 30 8 - Western Finnish
175-179 31 9 - Eastern Finnish
180-184 32 10 - Tatars + Bashkirians
185-189 33 11 - Rumanians + Moldavians
190-194 34 12 - Lithuanians
195-199 35 13 - All others
Urban nationality percentages for females, 1897,
European Russia. Rural percentages = total - urban
200-204 36 1 - Great Russian
205-209 37 2 - Ukrainian
210-214 38 3 - White Russian
215-219 39 4 - Latvian + Estonian
220-224 40 5 - German
225-229 41 6 - Polish
230-234 42 7 - Jewish
235-239 43 8 - Western Finnish
240-244 44 9 - Eastern Finnish
245-249 45 10 - Tatars + Bashkirians
250-254 46 11 - Rumanians + Moldavians
255-259 47 12 - Lithuanians
260-264 48 13 - All others