IBGE has already counted 60 million in the Census; employees report mistreatment during visits

Close to completing one month, the first data from the 2022 Demographic Census were released. The survey began on August 1st, by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) and visited 20.290.359 homes across the country. There were 58.291.842 people interviewed, according to the count up to Monday (29), and released this Tuesday (30).

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IBGE intends to visit 75 million homes by the end of October, but needs to deal with census takers dropping out. Second Estadão report, employees report verbal attacks, harassment and even threats in different regions of the country.

"Only those who have suffered a lot on earth go to heaven"

IBGE census takers in the 2022 census: pic.twitter.com/vzMyxMr9Ei
— João Luiz (@joaoluiz_l) August 20

I just met an IBGE census taker. She got emotional because I served her politely and answered her questions. She said that she has been extremely mistreated, that people don't want to respond to the census. Guys, how did we get here? What society is this?
— Maressa (@MSMirandaBH) August 20

Brazil is divided by IBGE into 452.246 urban and rural census sectors, 38,4% of which have already started to be visited by census takers.

2022 Census: what is the research for and how to identify IBGE employees?

Official launch ceremony of the 2022 Demographic Census, at the Museum of Tomorrow, port area of Rio.

How many are we, where are we and how do we live? The IBGE Demographic Census will answer these questions and present the current portrait of Brazil. The responses collected by uniformed and identified employees will be the basis for actions in the areas of health, education and other public policies.

States that had the most census sectors worked

Rio Grande do Norte 53%
Pernambuco 52,45%.
Federal District 52,04%.

States that had the least number of census sectors worked

Mato Grosso 21,81%.
Roraima 25,75%.
São Paulo 29,63%.

Questionaries

88,2% of households responded to the questionbasic ary.
11,8% (2.365.208) to the expanded.

Average response time

6 minutes to questionbasic ary.
18 minutes for the extended one.

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99,7% of the collection was done in person.
34.055 households chose to respond online
30.202 households chose to respond by telephone.
2,3% of the households visited refused to respond.

Hair 2022 Census website you can monitor collection data in states and municipalities.

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