Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística

About - Route of Enumerators of the 2022 Population Census

The Population Census is the main source of reference for understanding the living conditions of the population in all Brazilian municipalities and in their internal territorial divisions. It provides valuable support to the country's public administration and social and economic planning by means of results in different formats.  

By releasing the routes of enumerators in charge of data collection in the entire rural area of Brazil in the 2022 Population Census, as done in the 2017 Census of Agriculture, the IBGE makes available the vector files that contain the routes covered by these agents, including streets, roads, rural tracks, among others, based on coordinates captured by means of mobile devices equipped with GPS. These data, presented as KML files readable by Geographic Information Systems - SIGs and applications such as Google Earth, provide an overview of the territorial reach of the census operation and of the significant operational efforts for the conduction of the survey and represent a potentially useful input in other technical works, mainly in rural and remote areas that face scarcity of recent vector mapping at large scale.

Internally, the routes made available can support new rounds of activities by IBGE agents, both in terms of previous planning as in the phase of data collection and add to the update of cartographic programs, among other applications; externally, it can guide field works developed by governmental agencies, companies and civil society agents that demand information for the analysis or guidance of possible routes to be covered in the territory. 

The methodological notes attached to the publication explain the concepts and definitions adopted in the investigation and summarize the general procedures for the collection and treatment of data in the 2022 Population Census and present the figures resulting for its analysis, besides presenting other technical considerations.