Projeto Preenche Rápido
IBGE starts data collection for structural economic surveys after a year of Preenche Rápido Project
April 10, 2023 10h00 AM | Last Updated: April 11, 2023 03h58 PM
Last Monday (03), the IBGE started to collect data for the five Annual Structural Economic Surveys: Annual Survey of Industry – PIA Enterprise, Annual Survey of Industry – PIA-Product, Annual Survey of Trade – PAC, Annual Survey of Services – PAS and Annual Survey of Construction Industry – PAIC.
The year 2023 marks the renewal of a cooperation agreement between the IBGE and the the Federal Council of Accounting (CFC) for the Preenche Rápido (Fast Filling) Project, which allows the automatic filling of survey questionnaires, besides other initiatives in the fields of training and dissemination.
Since 2018, the IBGE has had in its systems a functionality that allows infomation to be imported from csv files. Nevertheless, this option was not widely known and, therefore, accouting softwares were not ready to generate information in the layout required by the accountant. According to Alessandro Pinheiro, coordinator of the IBGEs Department of Structural Statistics and Topics on Enterprises, that problem has been solved due to the Preenche Rápido Project, which helped improve the data collection process.
“In 2021, before the implementation of this project, there were about 1,500 questionnaires that received information from a csv file. In 2022, after the implementation of the Project, we registered 16,000 automatically-filled questionnaires," he says.
Mr. Pinheiro calls attention to the planned joint effort of the IBGE and the CFC aiming at dissemiantion and expansion of the project, to raise awareness among participating enterprises, so they can request this automomation tool from IT companies.
“IT companies need to develop, within their own accounting systems, the functionalities for automatic export of data from client enterprises, which are requested in our survey questionnaires. For that reason, we should have more dissenination, awareness-raising and training campaings," the coordinator explains.
Also, it is within the scope of the project that the IBGE and the CFC intent to promote, this year, a training event aimed at accounting professionals, with the objective of improving questionnaire filling quality and advertise the preenche Rápido Project.
“Automation rnables significant gains in terms of productivity and quality. The questionnaires are filled out faster, and that guarantees the operation for a biger number of enterprises. Accountants say it took them weeks to complete a questionnaire, and it takes only minutes now. Besides, that reduces the need of repetition and the typical errors of manual filling.
Th statistics produced by Structural Economic Surveys help design public policies and strategies in entrprises, and fed the System of Natioanl Accounts, thus adding to the construction of fundamental statistics for the country, for example, the Brazilian Gross Domestic Product. These figures are widely used by Ministries and other government entities, research institutes, companies and the academic community.
