The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (; IBGE) is the agency responsible for official collection of statistical, geographic, cartographic, geodetic and environmental information in Brazil. IBGE performs a decennial national census; questionnaires account for information such as age, household income, literacy, education, occupation and hygiene levels.
IBGE is a public institute created in 1936 under the name National Institute of Statistics. Its founder and chief proponent was statistician Mário Augusto Teixeira de Freitas. The current name dates from 1938. Its headquarters are located in Rio de Janeiro, and its current president is Eduardo Rios Neto. It was made a federal agency by Decree-Law No. 161 on February 13, 1967, and is linked to the Ministry of the Economy, inside the Secretariat of Planning, Budget and Management.
Structure
IBGE has a network of national research and dissemination components, comprising: 27 state units (26 in state capitals and one in the Federal District); 27 centres for documentation and dissemination of information (26 in the capital and one in the Federal District); 27 units for the supervision of territorial mapping (26 in the capital and one in the Federal District); 585 data collection agencies in major cities. Headquarters in Rio de Janeiro (the capital of the Republic when the Office was established).
Also in Rio are five boards and a school: Executive Directors (ED), Directorate of Research (DPE), Department of Geosciences (DGC), Department of Informatics (DI), Center for Documentation and Information Dissemination (CDDI) and the , a degree-granting institution.
The Directorate of Research is responsible for planning and coordinating the research of nature and processing of statistical data collected by the state units; the Department of Geosciences is responsible for basic cartography, the national geodetic system, with a survey of natural resources and environment and by survey and geographical studies.
The Center for Documentation and Information Dissemination is responsible for documentation and dissemination of information produced by the institute as well as coordinating the 27 CDDIs in the country, and the National School of Statistical Sciences, besides being responsible for training the institute's employees, is a federal institution of higher learning that offers the following courses: BA in statistics; specialization in Environmental Analysis and Management Planning, and Masters in Population Studies and Social Research.
The IBGE also maintains the Roncador Ecological Reserve, situated 35 km south of Brasília.
System of national accounts
Gives an overview of the economy and describes the phenomena of economic life: production, consumption and wealth accumulation, providing a comprehensive and simplified representation of these data. The System of National Accounts IBGE follows the most recent UN recommendations expressed in the Handbook of National Accounts (System of National Accounts 1993, SNA), including the calculation of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and the Input-output matrix.
Quarterly national accounts
Displays the current value and volume indices (1991 = 100) every quarter for the Gross Domestic Product at market prices, taxes on products, value added at basic prices, personal consumption, government consumption, Gross fixed capital formation, changes in inventories, exports and imports of goods and services. Two series of index numbers are calculated: the basis of the previous year and chained with reference to 1990 (1990 = 100). The series is seasonally adjusted using X-12-ARIMA, enabling calculation of the rates of change over the previous quarter.
The IBGE survey was started in 1988 and restructured after 1998, when their results were integrated into the current System of National Accounts. The annual weights are derived from this new system accounts.
Archives
IBGE maintains the following archives (non-exhaustive list): Municipal Agricultural Production (MAP) Municipal Livestock Survey (PPM) Extraction Plant and Forestry Research (PEVS) Annual Survey of Industry (full model) (PIA-C) Annual Survey of Industries (simplified form) (PIA-S) Annual Survey of Industries (product) (PIA-Prod) Annual Survey of Construction Industry (Paice) Annual Survey of Trade (simplified model) (PAC-S) Annual Survey of Trade (full model) (PAC-C) Annual Services Survey (PAS) Continuous National Sample Survey of Households (PNADC) Monthly Survey of Employment and Wages (PIMES) Monthly Industrial Survey of Physical Production (PIM -PF) Monthly Survey of Trade (PMC) Monthly Survey of Services (PMS) Household Budget Survey (POF)