After Crimea became part of the Russian Federation in 2014, there was a question about the reliability of population censuses previously held there. The last census in the peninsula was carried out in 2001.

A new census in Crimea was scheduled for October 2014, and its program mainly coincided with that of the 2010 national census.

As was standard, the questionnaire was filled in exclusively from the words of the respondents and everyone was permitted to not answer certain questions.

As a result, only a very small share of the population refused to take part in the census (14,754 people or 0.6% of Crimea's population). The census takers took details of non-participants from administrative databases.

«Census results»

The census covered 2,284,769 people in the Crimean Federal District, including 1,891,465 residents of the Republic of Crimea (82.8%) and 393,304 (17.2%) residents of Sevastopol.

The ethnic composition had slightly changed compared to the 2001 census: 68% rather than 61% of Crimea's residents called themselves Russians, 16% instead of 24% called themselves Ukrainians, and the share of Crimean Tatars was relatively stable, showing a rise in 0.3% from 10.3% to 10.6%.