Website allows identity checking of IBGE enumerators
October 19, 2017 09h00 AM | Last Updated: October 20, 2017 12h48 PM
It is quite common for people to feel uncomfortable when visited by enumerators at their home or establishment. With this in mind, the IBGE has come up with the website “Answering the IBGE”". The page allows anyone to check the authenticity of the agents through their names or IDs, Social Security numbers or IBGE registration numbers, written on the enumerators' badge.
The page resulted from the internal project "Relationship with the Respondent", which aims at raising Brazilians' awareness of the importance of the IBGE in portraying the country's reality. In addition to consulting the identity of the agents, users can also find information on the types of surveys carried out by the Institute and on the interviews and the data protection policy.
For IBGE servant, Alex Waghabi, founder of the project, the main purpose of the page is to ensure the safety and privacy of the respondents. "The platform explains why that citizen or establishment was selected to participate in the survey and ensures that the information provided to the IBGE is protected by statistical secrecy," he points out.
Inaugurated at the beginning of the year, "Answering" already has an average of two thousand monthly accesses. According to IBGE analyst Renata Correa, who coordinated the ad campaign of the page, the idea was to show the citizen, through ads in the social media and in the institutional magazine, that the IBGE is always in the field. "In the campaign, we seek to broaden the understanding of the Brazilian about the role of the institute and the importance of citizen participation in this work," she describes.
The ID checking can be done on https://respondendo.ibge.gov.br/ and also by phone: 0800 721 8181.
IBGE in a Minute: Answering
Text: João Neto
Photo and art: Pedro Vidal
