From November 29 to December 1st, representatives of the official statistics offices of Brazil, Russia, India and China will meet at IBGE ...

From November 29 to December 1^st, representatives of the official statistics offices of Brazil, Russia, India and China will meet at IBGE to discuss the release of harmonized information. The initiative aims at producing comparable socioeconomic indicators for these four emerging great countries, which became internationally known as the acronym BRIC that refers to the countries names. One of the steps of this harmonization work was the publication of Joint Statistical Publication by BRIC Countries, organized by IBGE and released on April15, 2010.

Like in Brazil, population censuses are being carried out in China (initiated on November 1^st, 2010) and Russia (initiated in October of this year), while India is programmed to conduct their census in February 2011. There are similarities and differences among the four census operations, besides great logistic challenges for the official statistics offices of these four countries, where around 2.9 billion people or 42% of the world population live. China, for instance, must recruit approximately 3 million enumerators for their population census, whereas IBGE employed 192 thousand enumerators in the 2010 Census.