STATISTICAL SURVEYS OF THE INDIGENOUS POPULATION ON THE TERRITORY OF ALTAI IN THE LATE XIX - EARLY XX CENTURIES.

The article deals with the process of organizing and conducting statistical surveys of the indigenous population on the territory of Altai in the late XIX - early XX centuries. Attention is paid to the formation of statistics as a national statistical offices, and public organizations. was "Society studies lovers Altai" One of these societies. Presented forms of statistical accounting, discussed mechanisms of data and their processing.