For the first time in the history of the 2027 population census, separate information on begging will not be collected. The questionnaire has excluded the category 'beggars and vagrants, etc.' from the list of 'non-economic activities.'
According to sources, this decision was made due to the extremely low number of responses in this category during the last census. During the 2011 census, only about 380 thousand unemployed and marginal workers identified themselves as 'beggars and vagrants.'