Introduction to IBGE
IBGE is one of the most prestigious Brazilian institutes, responsible for providing data regarding geosciences and social, demographic and economic statistics. It is the major national institute in terms of providing information about Brazil.
Background
Every 10 years, a Brazilian household will receive the visit of an IBGE representative who will be working with the demographic census. The purpose of this census is primarily to count the number of inhabitants in the country, but this data is also the source where we get key information from.
The Brazilian Institute for Geography and Statistics (Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística or simply IBGE) is responsible for providing information about the Brazilian population, economy and geosciences, such as:
- Household size
- Population distribution (according to age, gender and location)
- Educational level of the population
- Income per capita
- Unemployment levels
Any foreigner coming to Brazil will end up using data from IBGE, as this is the institute where all socioeconomic information about Brazil comes from. In a general overview, IBGE’s work can be segmented in the following sections: indicators, population, economy and geosciences.
Indicators
Labor and Income
Responsible for the monthly employment survey
Agriculture
Responsible for researches related to stocks, crop and livestock production.
Industry
Responsible for special indexes of physical production, such as:
- Capital goods
- Categories of use by activity
- Classification compatible with PIMES
- Dissemination
- Household appliances
- Packaging
- Expenditure on electricity
- Exporting capacity
This section also deals with the monthly survey of industrial employment and wages – PIMES.
Trade
Related to the monthly survey of trade – PMC
Indexes, Prices and Costs
Responsible for:
- Harmonization of consumer price indexes of Mercosur countries and Chile
- IPA (wholesale prices of Getulio Vargas Foundation)
- IPP (producer prices – manufacturing industry)
- International comparison program
- SINAPI (civil construction)
- SNIPC (consumer prices)
Population
Social Indicators
- Political mediation
- Children and teenagers
- Education and labor
- Infant mortality
- Minimum social indicators
- Labor market
- Social mobility
- Youth population
- Summary of social indicators
- Cultural indicators
- Sociodemographic and health indicators in Brazil
Population Censuses
- Population count
- Civil registry statistics
PNAD
- National household sample survey
- Supplements
- Special surveys
PeNSE
- National survey of school health
- Analysis of the nutritional state of the 9th grades
Others
- Consumer expenditures survey
- Survey of basic-municipal information – Munic
- Complete life tables
- Population prospect
- Population estimates
- Sanitation atlas
- Urban informal economy
- Medical-sanitary assistance
- Basic sanitation
- Labor unions: social indicators
- Survey of sports (2003)
Economy
Probably the most important section for foreigners willing to invest in Brazil, the “Economy” section of IBGE deals with the following subjects:
Industry
- Construction industry - PAIC
- Annual survey of industry (PIA – enterprise; PIA – product)
Services
- Accommodation
- Annual survey of services - PAS
- Annual survey of services – products and services
- Survey of promotion and publicity services
- Survey of information technology services 2009
- Survey of accommodation services
- Public finances of Brazil
Agriculture
- Census of agriculture
- Coffee (Paraná state)
- Flower and ornamental plants
- Agricultural indicators
- Harvests
- Municipal agricultural production (cereals, vegetables and oilseeds)
- Forestry activities – PEVS
- Municipal livestock – PPM
- Agrochemicals (Paraná state)
Economic registers and classifications
- National classification of economic activities 2.0
- National classification of economic activities – subclasses for use by the general government 2.0
- List of agriculture and fishing products – PRODLIST: Agriculture/Fishing
Innovation and entrepreneurship
- Technological innovation - PINTEC
- Survey of innovation in federal state-run companies
- Statistics of entrepreneurship
System of national accounts
- Financial account and financial assets account
- National accounts
- Regional accounts
- Input-product matrix
- Health satellite-account
- Tourism economics
- GDP of municipalities
Also, the Economic section of IBGE is also in charge of:
- Non-profit private social assistance
- Public finances of Brazil
- Private foundations and non-profit associations in Brazil
- Small and micro enterprises
- Demography of enterprises
- Economic registers and classifications
- Statistics of the central register of enterprises
Geosciences
Official territory area cartography
- Topographic mapping
- Mapping of territorial units
- Geographic mapping
- Publications
Geodesy
- Precise point positioning (PPP)
- Brazilian geodetic system (SGB)
- Brazilian network for continuous GPS monitoring (RBMC)
- Permanent geodetic tide gauge network (RMPG)
- Geocentric reference system for the Americas (SIRGAS)
- Project for changing the geodetic reference system (PMRG)
- Documentation (specifications and norms; geodetic mark homologation)
Geography
- Division into regions
- Special areas (boundary area and coastal zone)
- Atlas
- Areas of influence of cities
Natural resources
- Publications
- Fauna and flora
- Land use
- Systematization
- Water resources