Census takers
They are the professionals responsible for conducting interviews at homes in all municipalities in the country (there are more than 5,570 cities).
They come into direct contact with the public and represent the IBGE to society.
In short, the job consists of going through the census sector under your responsibility, registering addresses and talking with residents.
Quizzes
These are the list of questions that must be answered by the survey, the Basic one has 26 questions and the Sample one has 51 additional questions, totaling 77.
Basic Questionnaire
It covers questions about housing, age, race, work, family structure, income.
- Address
- Type of household and its occupation
- Residents and cohabitation relations
- Age and gender of residents
- Rooms and facilities
- Access to public services and infrastructure
- Race identification
- Schooling
- Work and income
- Mortality
universe
Result of all the households surveyed by the Census in 26 basic questions.
Sample Questionnaire
It expands on basic issues and more details, including historical aspects, migration, disability, education, and travel.
- Degree of kinship between residents of a household
- Degree of acquisition of the household, its state of finish, pattern of use of the rooms
- Nuptial details
- Religious engagement
- Migrations of family members
- Degree and details of education
- Travel to study and work
- Type of work and income
- Special conditions and disabilities
- Traditional peoples
Sample
Result of the more detailed information from the expanded questionnaire, which are attributable to the Census Sectors contained in the Weighting Area.
Census Sector
They are areas of focus for census takers, who receive a territory with a group of households to research. Each census taker may cover one or more sectors.
Weighting Area
They are larger areas, which include approximately 15 census tracts within themselves. These areas are representative of the Sample questionnaire.
families
A group of people who live together and share kinship ties by consanguinity (blood) or affinity (marriage).
Households
Housing unit where one or more people live, which may be a house, apartment, bedroom, among others, and may not belong to the same family.
Collective households
Institutions such as orphanages, monasteries, convents, prisons, pensions, dormitories, where people live collectively.
Permanent private homes
Households where people reside year-round.
Unoccupied homes for occasional use
Households used only sporadically, such as vacation homes, households used for work.
Vacant unoccupied households
Households not available for rent and sale, in there were no occupants during the Census survey.
Improvised homes
Temporary or makeshift homes, such as tents.
upbringing
Survey of the educational levels achieved by the people surveyed, seeking to measure the appropriateness of the ages for the minimum expected school grade.
Nuptiality
Patterns and statistics related to marriage and other types of unions.
It considers the analysis of marriage rates, average age at the time of marriage, and divorces.
Fecundity
It tracks factors related to reproduction, such as women of childbearing age, number of children per woman, and life stages of the woman in which the babies are born.
Mortality
Expressed as the number of deaths per thousand inhabitants in a given period of time, the study of mortality includes the analysis of causes of death, age distribution of deaths, and other factors related to the health and longevity of the population.
Despite being measured in Censuses, this information is quite consistent in civil registry banks.
Migration
It deals with the movement of people between areas, whether internationally or within a country, driven by economic, social, political, or environmental factors.
Work and income
The central theme of the research is covered by various aspects related to occupation, activity carried out, travel and income measured in the exercise of these activities.
Microdata
Individual data set, often anonymized to protect privacy.
Aggregate data
Summarized or consolidated data, generally in averages, totals, etc.
Sample weights
Factors applied to sample data to compensate for differences between the sample and the total population.
Analytical weights
Weights applied to data to adjust and correct possible distortions or biases in the statistical analysis.