Key statistics on demographic and economic indicators such as Gross Domestic Product (GDP), or unemployment and population statistics at the city level.
| Question | Answer | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Available in bulk | Yes | |
| In an open format | CSV, TSV, XLS | |
| Available free of charge | Yes | |
| Up-to-date | No | In the case of GDP the last dataset available is from 2013. For unemployment the data is available every 3 months and is up to date. For Population the last dataset available is from 2015 July. |
| Available free online | Yes | |
| Openly licenced | Yes | |
| findable | 3 | |
| findable_steps | For GDP and Population, I just googled those keywords and "municipal". For Unemployment, I did a quick research to check if the Continuous National Household Sample Survey collects municipal data. After that I visited the IBGE website and searched for Population, GDP and Unemployment at the municipal level | |
| licence_url | https://www.ibge.gov.br/home/disseminacao/eventos/missao | I didn't find something as objective as a "terms and conditions" or a real license, but I found at this link a list of fundamental principles for official statistics with some guidelines for publication and dissemination. It contains the idea of data provided for public domain. |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| usability | 3 | Datasets are downloadable in a processable format. Also it is easy to understand how data is organized. |
| collector_name | IBGE - Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística | Portuguese for Brazilian institute for geography and statistics |
| characteristics | Gross Domestic Product, City unemployment, City population | |
| location | https://www.ibge.gov.br/home/estatistica/pesquisas/pesqu - Municipal Gross Domestic Product - IBGE, https://www.ibge.gov.br/home/estatistica/indicadores/tra - Quarterly unemployment rates from the Continuous National Household Sample Survey - IBGE, https://www.ibge.gov.br/home/estatistica/populacao/estim - Municipal Population Estimatives - IBGE, https://www.sidra.ibge.gov.br/ - All data from IBGE can also be downloaded through this system called SIDRA. But here you don't have access to the whole dataset. |
B6 was reviewed because GDP was not updated. Reviewed.