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Workshop shows Census data potential for Quilombola population
March 31, 2025 02h00 PM | Last Updated: April 01, 2025 11h38 AM
On Friday morning (03/28), the Workshop "Quilombola Brazil: Census data potential for Quilombola population" took place in the UN headquarters in Brazil, Brasília, with the participation of Marta Antunes and Fernando Damasco, members of the IBGE Traditional Peoples and Communities working group. The workshop is a joint initiative of the IBGE with the Ministry of Education and the UN Population Fund in Brazil (UNFPA).
Civil servants from the Ministry of Development and Social Assitance, Combat to Hunger, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Tourism, civil society and academy entities attended the workshop. Before the lectures, the event hostess, UNFPA representative Júnia Queiroga, opened the session saluting the audience and complimenting the partnership between the IBGE and UNFPA.
At first, the material on the Quilombola population, including main results, tables and publications, available on the 2022 Census webpage on the IBGE portal, was presented. The specialized audience was exposed to the technical and methodological aspects of a Census which, unprecedently, identified this population as an ethnic group inside and outside their territory.
Ms. Antunes and Mr. Damasco presented the IBGE Automatic Retrieval System (SIDRA), showing the system's functionalities and exploring the tables with data on the Quilombola population. In addition to SIDRA, data were also analysed from the perspective of the 2022 Census Overview platform and the Geographic Interactive Platform (PGI).
After the event, Ms. Antunes highlihgted the importance of the workshop bringing different Ministries and organizations closer to the unprecedented data on the Quilombola population released by the IBGE. “The workshop is very important as it presents to different ministries, which had no official data whatsoever on the quilombola population, how to access our pages, understand out systems and use our data to improve their policy-making", she claimed.
Furthermore, Ms. Antunes spoke on the richness of the information available on the IBGE platforms an highlihgted the fundamental role of the workshop facilitating the dilogue among the technical areas of the Institute and major data users. “We have a universe, an ocean of data, and, often, people do not know how to access or use it. So, having them here allows us to clear doubts that, sometimes are not so easy to solve”, she explained.
Mr. Damasco also highlighted the importance of the workshop, claiming that the event was extremely productive, with the participation of techical representatives from several ministries and institutions. “This is a very priviledged moment to us, as data sharing and dissemination of the use of statistical and geographic information is part of our institutional mission”, he said. He also pointed out that joint efforts from the IBGE and government bodies directly contribute to improve public policies and allow technicians to have more access to essential data and information for their performance.
To read more news on the 2022 Census results for the Quilombola population, please click here.
