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 | .csv and .tsv formats are available in any query generated through SIDRA (https://www.sidra.ibge.gov.br/). |
| 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 | I'm acquainted with this kind of data, since I’ve been working with them for a long time, so it was really easy to me. But actually, finding data in IBGE’s website may not be that easy. Data is scattered through the website in many different places and you can actually find the same data in different ways. |
| findable_steps | For GDP and Population, I just had to type in google 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 | There is no API but you can download the whole dataset at once in processable format. Data is organized in sheets, so you don’t have to clean it to work. |
| collector_name | IBGE - Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística | The brazilian institute for geography and statistics is a federal government agency, associated with the brazilian ministry of planning, budget and management (Ministério do Planejamento, Orçamento e Gestão). The federal institute collects data in municipal level as well. |
| 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 Estimates - 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. |
Revised. Everything ok.