IBGE reveals today, November 4, the resident population in each of the 5.565 Brazilian municipalities ...

IBGE reveals today, November 4,the resident population in each of the 5.565 Brazilian municipalities on August 1^st, 2010, according to the results of the 2010 Population Census, carried out from August 1^st to October 31, which enumerated 185,712,713 people in the whole Brazil.

The population in each municipality will be also published today, on the Federal Official Gazette of Brazil, according to supplementary act no. 59, of December 22, 1988, and to article 102 of law no. 8443, of July 16, 1992. These results will be presented to city halls through a written notice by IBGE and during meetings of the State Census Commissions (CCE) and the Municipal Commissions of Geography and Statistics (CMGE), where possible doubts may be resolved. From today on, city halls will have 20 days to present their evaluations on the released figures, and, on November 29, IBGE will release results of municipal populations.

During this time, IBGE will keep working on the streets and internally in the supervision and quality control of the whole collected material, and also to provide clarification to members of CCE and CMGE and city halls, when necessary. One of the supervision activities is the return to households where the enumerator found evidence of residents, but nobody was enumerated. In order to set an interview, the population may call 0800-7218181 until November 24, or send a form through the link http://www.censo2010.ibge.gov.br/cadastro_nao_recenseado.php.

Between November 8 and 24, results of the 2010 Census collection will continue accessible on the Internet, at www.censo2010.ibge.gov.br, and may be updated according to supervision.

Results will be presented to the Municipal Commissions of Geography and Statistics

Representatives of the Executive, Legislature and Judiciary of states and municipalities, besides civil society institutions, will be able to evaluate results of the 2010 Census by means of the CCE and the CMGE, which were established between May and August 2009, in all the 27 Federation Units and in the Brazilian municipalities. The commissions worked as a communication channel between IBGE and society, and participated in the whole process of the 2010 Census conduction.

The census will reveal reality in each municipality

Initiated on August 1^st, 2010, the 12^th Brazilian Population Census in the last three months traversed the 8,514,876.599 km² of the national territory, in the 5,565 Brazilian municipalities, with the task of counting how many we are and discover how we live. Through the work of 191 thousand enumerators, among other professionals, the Population Census obtained information on all the 5,565 Brazilian municipalities, and for some items, will bring data even on neighborhoods and districts. Investigating characteristics of households, the kinship relations, fecundity, education, work, income, color and race, and religion, the census questionnaire was widely discussed with experts and users, satisfies international standards and brought questions able to verify social transformations since the conduction of the 2000 Census.