There were massive statistics collected during the late Russian Empire (1861-1917)-- the "Zemstvo Statistics." They are available on microform at Yale (http://www.library.yale.edu/slavic/microform/zemstvo.html). Have they been digitized? If not, is there some problem with the data which has made it difficult to digitize?
Thanks, JR
That microform collection appears to be published by Brill. Their website says that the searchable CD-ROM index is available for free, and they also have a 60-page guide in PDF format free for download. The collection itself is extremely expensive, which explains why only a handful of top research libraries in the US and Europe seem to have it in their collections.
I do not see any evidence (in English, I don't know Russian) to suggest that a digital version of the actual collection itself is in the works, but I don't find this very surprising. Digitizing such a huge collection of data would expensive, and the target audience would be small.
