At the end of the XIX century there were different ways of collecting data on the Kalmyk Steppe. Along with annual reports of the Astrakhan Committee of Statistics, there were survey expedition of the Steppe, military-horse census and population census. Military-horse census had been carried out twice a year since 1902. On the whole, there were nine censuses organized from 1875-1912 in pre-revolutionary Russia. In organizational terms, the census was carried out by the warden of the ulus and ulus rulers. Census data included the following information: the name of the uyezd (district), the number of military horse section, the name of the volost (small rural district) and the name of horses roundup. All-Russian Rural Administrative Division was mentioned in the heading of each census table. After 1892 the Administration of the Kalmyk people had undergone the process of reorganization. The analysis of annual reports of the Chief Administration shows that the officials were charged with the collection of a huge amount of information on statistics and accounting. The given summary table, based on the reports of the Chief Administration for 1893-1917 years, demonstrates not only the specifics of its staff, but the scope of its activities in the field of statistical data collection. On the 15th of September 1918 it was decreed to establish local statistical offices.