The finances for organizing and conducting the census, processing the data and publishing the results came from the state budget, as well as from Moldova's development partners – Swiss Development and Cooperation (SDC), Government of Romania, Government of the Czech Republic, UNICEF, UNDP and the European Union, with the support of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
[2] The census did not cover the breakaway republic of Transnistria, which approximately corresponds to the Administrative-Territorial Units of the Left Bank of the Dniester of Moldova.
At the same time, Transnistria postponed its census for at least 2 years citing financial difficulties.
[3] On 31 March 2017 the National Bureau of Statistics officially announced a part of the census results.
[2] 2,754.7 thousand people (98.2%) reported their ethnicity, and the distribution is as follows:[2] The 2014 census for the first time collected the information about the language they usually speak.