The objective is to elaborate the territorial base which will guide the 2010 Demographic Census, with the participation of state and municipal institutions in charge of the definition of political-administrative limits of the country.

The objective is to elaborate the territorial base which will guide the 2010 Demographic Census, with the participation of state and municipal institutions in charge of the definition of political-administrative boundaries of the country. The National Seminar with the Institutions in Charge of Political-Administrative Boundaries, will be held in Brasília, on 07/01, at 9:30 AM, at the auditorium of the Ministry of Planning, located in block K, ground floor.

The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) has already started the preparation for the XII Demographic Census, which will be conducted in 2010 and present an updated portrayal of social, economic and demographic characteristics of the Brazilian population. The information obtained in the 2010 Census will be used as support to the public and private planning of coming decade. For this census, IBGE has been conducting several events intended to increase the participation of governmental, public and private institutions interested in the topics encompassed by the Demographic Census. The latest event promoted by IBGE and the Ministry of Planning was held on June 19, in Brasília.

A new step is being conducted by IBGE and the Ministry of Planning, today, in Brasília, with a National Seminar including institutions in charge of matters related to the Political-Administrative Division of the Country. To this meeting were invited representatives of the Senate, the House of Representatives, the Brazilian Court of Audit, Ministers of related-affairs,  Commission of Economic Affairs, of Regional Development and Tourism, both belonging to the Federal Senate; Commission of Amazon, National Integration and of Regional Development of the House of Representatives; of Legislative Assemblies, State Secretariats of Planning, state organizations for land and cartography; National Confederation of Municipalities; Brazilian Association of Municipalities and National League of Mayors.

The Territorial base of the country is the instrument used by IBGE to release housing, demographic, social, economic and environmental statistics. For this reason, IBGE considers it of vital importance to discuss with society the criteria adopted by the institution to define the state and municipal territorial limits which will be adopted in the 2010 Census, because the lack of precision in the parameters included in laws may cause problems of interpretation of the territory limits of each municipal and local area. This lack of precision contributed to the questioning, by representatives of legislative and executive powers, of the population data results released by IBGE and which directly affect the distribution of resources from the Municipal Participation Fund (FPM).

According to the 4^th paragraph of Article 18 of the Federal Constitution of 1988, the definition of municipal limits and of state divisions is the attribution of states and municipalities. By promoting the National Seminar with the Institutions in Charge of Political-Administrative Limits of the country, IBGE and the Ministry of Planning expect, above all, to identify measures to point to the best form of representation and update of the Territorial Division of the country: to present the IBGE work program – which counts on the participation of states and municipalities through the Census Commission of the 5,564 Brazilian municipalities; to analyze the disagreements about territorial limits and to inform how IBGE can support state organizations for land and cartography about the matters of limits in general, and also, once states will allow territorial basis of the 2010 Census to reflect the reality of political-administrative division of Brazil.  

Until July 31, 2009, IBGE will be available to discuss these matters and, on August 01, 2009, will finish the step of cartographic preparation for the 2010 Demographic Census, which will be used to guide the field of work of each one of the 200 thousand census takers contracted for this census of the Brazilian population, between August 01 and November 2010.

2010 Census will have computerized collection and will be satellite guidance

Besides collecting data using electronic questionnaires and handheld computers (PDAs), the 200 thousand-plus census agents who will work during the 2010 Census will be guided by GPS systems (attached to theirs PDAs). The Territorial Base, with the location of over 58 million Brazilian households, will be produced with the application of geotechnologies and the use of remote sensing images, besides photos obtained through aerophotogrammetric mapping.

The information in the mapping of census sectors is associated to the National Address List for. Statistical Purposes (CNEFE). This way, all the information all the information collected by the 2010 Census will be georeferenced with much more precision than in the 2000 Demographic Census. For the first time. IBGE intends to use address lists to improve and update CNEFE.