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Census of Agriculture begins today and will visit 5.3 million properties

Section: IBGE

October 02, 2017 09h00 AM | Last Updated: October 09, 2017 10h02 AM

After months of intensive setup, the 2017 Census of Agriculture begins to collect data all over Brazil this Monday. It is expected that more than 18 thousand IBGE enumerators visit all the estimated 5.3 million agricultural establishments in the country between October this year and February 2018.

The survey will be launched at 10am this Monday at the IBGE headquarters in Rio de Janeiro by the President of the IBGE, Roberto Olinto, and the board of directors, establishing the beginning of the data collection period. The ministers of Planning, Development and Management, Dyogo Oliveira, and Agriculture, Blairo Maggi, and the former IBGE President and now President of the BNDES, Paulo Rabello de Castro, are also expected.

As a five-month survey, not all the areas will be visited right in the first week. It is expected to gradually happen as the enumerators progress in their enumeration areas.

Antônio Florido, Technical Manager of the Census, highlights the importance of the IBGE establishing a good relationship with the agricultural producers, since they are responsible for providing the data to build suitable and relevant statistics for the Brazilian society and for the planning of public policies.

"The data do not belong to the IBGE. They belong to the informant. The better the information provided to the IBGE, the better the statistics that the IBGE will make available for the population as a whole. So, the better we arrive at the informant, the better the information will be provided. The IBGE does not build data, the IBGE build statistics based on data provided by informants", stressed Antônio Florido.

Maria Vilma Sales Garcia, Operational Coordinator of Censuses, highlights that the differences between the regions of a continental country like Brazil are the greatest challenges in the planning and implementation of a survey of such size.

“The regional diversity is quite challenging. It is much easier to interview establishments in the Southeast Region, like in Rio de Janeiro or São Paulo. Visiting municipalities in Amazonas and Pará requires more availability, as the ways to access them are very different. In the North, you have to rent a boat, rent a plane, face Indian areas and areas with land conflict. Geographic diversity is the greatest challenge", explains the responsible for the Census operation, which hired more than 26 thousand persons.

The Census aims at showing the reality of the Brazilian agricultural production, which was lastly showed 11 years ago by the previous edition of the survey. The IBGE carries out other surveys, like the Municipal Livestock Production, the Municipal Agricultural Production and the quarterly surveys of Agriculture. Nevertheless, the Census is the only survey that collects data from every producer, besides providing inputs for the others. As a result, it provides a picture of the Brazilian countryside.

"Does the result of a census get old? The census is a picture, a cutting time, a historic milestone. It does not get old or outdated. A historic milestone is a historic milestone. A census picture becomes figures", highlights Florido.

QR Code identification  

The identification of the enumerator through a QR Code in his badge, located in the left side of his vest, is one of the innovations of this Census of Agriculture. The code can be read with a mobile phone, which will be redirected to the IBGE website, which will check it out.

Other data can be found in the badge, like the full name of the enumerator, his registration, identification number and the validity date of this information, as well as his picture.

The last identification element of the enumerator is the Data Collection Mobile Device - DMC they will be using at the time they apply the questionnaire. This device is mandatory, since they will be used by the enumerators to register the data of the establishments, as well as to geo-reference the properties.

                                    

Calendar
Data collection:
From October 2017 to February 2018
Data assessment and analysis: From March 2018 onwards
Release of the results: From May 2018 onwards

 

IBGE minute: beginning of the data collection of the 2017 Census of Agriculture



Text: Rodrigo Paradella 
Photograph: Licia Rubinstein



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