The collection of information for the 2022 Census completes three months this Tuesday (1st), with 66% of the population accounted for. The Director of Research at the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), Cimar Azeredo, points out that the biggest challenge for completing the work is still hiring census takers.
According to Azeredo, ideally, 183,000 professionals would be needed, but the IBGE has not yet managed to surpass the barrier of 120,000 at any given time and, today, it has around 90,000.
“We had two simplified selection processes canceled due to the pandemic, in 2020 and another now in 2021. This ended up generating a certain distrust among census takers”, he declared.
The hiring process remains open, on the IBGE website. The lack of teams shows its reflexes in the counting of Brazilians, which should be in the closing phase, but had the collection extended until the month of December.
The consequences are also seen in the disparity in progress across states. In Piauí, for example, 86% of the inhabitants have already been counted, 83% in Sergipe and 80% in Rio Grande do Norte. In São Paulo, the count is just above 50%, not reaching this rate in Mato Grosso.
Azeredo says that the problems in the payment of professionals, both salaries and allowances, reported at the beginning of the census, have already been resolved.
Despite the postponement of the completion of the collection of information until December, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics maintains the date scheduled for December 28 for the delivery of preliminary information for the 2022 Census, such as number of inhabitants, age pyramid and gender.
Azeredo points out that the modernization of the process, with the transmission of information in real time from the street teams to the analysts, will allow the research result to be known more quickly than in the last study, carried out in 2010.
Refusal rate at 2.9%
The work in the approximately 75 million households in the country has a refusal rate of 2.9%, according to the IBGE. The agency’s Director of Research reports the record of occasional problems with trustees and doormen that prevent the census taker from accessing the residents. He recalls that preventing the work of public servants is a crime.
In addition, it appeals to people to participate in the 2022 Census, carried out with a two-year delay due to the pandemic and budget problems. Azeredo explains that research is essential to direct the work of public authorities, such as the distribution of vaccines and medicines.
“What will the census effectively bring to my life? The school for your child, the job you need, the hospital you don’t have in your area. How does he bring this? Guiding public policy,” she points out.
Source: CNN Brasil
