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EMCDC - Study on the Continuous Population Census Modality

About - Seminars

In order to plan the next population census in an environment of continuous methodological development, the IBGE, in partnership with the Instituto Nacional de Estadística Geografía e Informática (INEGI - Mexico), carried out three international seminars on alternative demographic census methods. The seminars were supported by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), the U.S. Census Bureau (USA) and the Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques – INSEE  (France) and with the participation of several countries of Latin America.

The 1st Seminar on Alternative Methods for Demographic Censuses was held on October 13, 14 and 15, 2004, in Rio de Janeiro. As a starting point for the study and discussion phase in Latin America, the seminar was a channel for sharing of the experiences of the continuous census of France and of the American Community Survey of the United States, with the presence of experts from both countries.

The 2nd Seminar on Alternative Methods for Demographic Censuses  was held on July 4, 5 and 6, 2005, in Aguascalientes, Mexico.

Reinforcing the commitment to keep a forum for the discussion on the subject in Latin America and to encourage partnerships among countries to promote the study and evaluation of these methods, the IBGE held the 3rd Seminar on Alternative Methods for Demographic Censuses, on May 29, 30 and 31 of 2006, in Rio de Janeiro.

Description

The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics – IBGE plays the important role of providing Brazil with information that can portray its reality for the exercise of citizenship. This includes the responsibility of carrying out population census. Today the IBGE, as the other Statistical Institutes of several countries all over the world, finds itself in the middle of a dilemma: to produce more and better information in the midst of budget restrictions and urgency of results.

Aiming at improving its work methodology concerning the planning and execution of the population censuses, the IBGE makes an effort to examine and assess methods other than full enumeration of the population, especially those based on samples which are already being adopted in the United States and France.

The project Study on the Continuous Population Census Modality – EMCDC is grounded on the current international discussion on the use of such methods due to the challenge that the National Statistical Offices face to produce updated, geographically and thematically detailed information, with the constant necessity of cost reduction. Knowing that it also must cope with such hindrances, the IBGE has started some activities to foster the study and the assessment of alternative methodologies for the population census in the Brazilian context.

With activities initiated in 2004, the project has been welcoming actions that help evaluate the technical and operational viability of the methodological change. Of note are the three international seminars carried out in partnership with the Instituto Nacional de Estadística Geografía e Informática (INEGI - Mexico), the participations in international symposiums and international meetings on alternative census modalities, including technical visits to the National Institute INSEE (France), besides the participation in the debate on the future of the Brazilian population census in activities at the national level, as CONFEST/CONFEG and ABEP, among others.

Taking part in those activities has helped foster the debate on the subject in the Institute and, in 2004 and 2005, multidisciplinary work groups (WT) with technicians from the several IBGE organizational units were engaged in the project development. Five work groups were created and later defined to encompass the different dimensions of the work, given the project’s complexity:

  • WG Census Mapping and Address Register;
  • WG Conceptual Design;
  • WG Information Sampling, Estimation and Accumulation;
  • WG Distribution of Agencies;
  • WG Integration between Censuses and Surveys.

Based on the knowledge produced in the different thematic groups a proposal was elaborated for the operational model. It established guidelines for the carrying out of the Pilot Test of the Continuous Census. The test was carried out in the period between 2008 and 2013 and comprises two cumulative cycles: 2008-2012 e 2009-2013.

The preliminary results of the study may be seen in the articles: Study on the Continuous Population Census Modality, presented in the XVIII National Meeting of Population Studies and in the  20th National Symposium on Probability and Statistics; and Rolling Census: scoping study for Brazil, presented in the 59th World Statistics Congress.

The studies must be concluded by the end of 2014, when the implementation limits and possibilities for the Continuous Census Modality in Brazil will be presented.fico Contínuo no Brasil.