2022 Census
IBGE launches platform with data on women in 2022 Census
March 16, 2026 02h25 PM | Last Updated: March 17, 2026 02h40 PM
The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) is promoting a meeting on March 26 dedicated to the presentation of the overview “Women in the 2022 Population Census,” within the scope of Women's Month 2026. At the event, which takes place on-line at Casa Brasil IBGE Rio de Janeiro, experts from the Institute will discuss strategic indicators that reveal gender inequalities in Brazil, from the national level to the municipalities.
Although a number of Census releases provide data by sex, this information is scattered across different themes. The overview brings together, in a single space, the most representative indicators of the situation of women in the dimensions investigated by the Census, offering a transversal and integrated view of gender inequalities.
The coordinator of the IBGE´s Thematic Commission on Social Relations of Gender and Sexualities, Daléa Antunes, highlights that the analytical perspective provided by this overview allows us to identify inequalities that often remain invisible in aggregate statistics. As a result, the initiative can contribute to guiding more effective public policies for women and men.
“The Census has the capacity to reveal these differences on a very detailed territorial scale, reaching the level of municipalities and even neighborhoods. In a country as diverse and unequal as Brazil, this granularity is fundamental to give visibility to the different realities experienced by women and men in different territories and population groups, thus allowing a vision between men and women, but also between different groups of women, the so-called intersectionality, as we will show in the presentation on the 26 and to which Barbara Cobo (deputy coordinator of the Commission) and I invited all Ibgeans.
In addition to the presentation of the overview, workshops will be held at the event on the use of the IBGE Automatic Retrieval System (SIDRA) and the overview itself. The event will last 2h30 and will take place in a hybrid format, with activities at Casas Brasil Rio de Janeiro, IBGE Fundaj – Recife, COP - Belém and Ipece- Ceará.
The event will feature speeches from experts about the 2022 Census, highlighting topics such as women's experience in data collection; education and people with disabilities; fertility and family composition; indigenous people and quilombolas, among others. Special guests will also address the importance of the data for public policies at different levels.
The organization of the data seeks to streamline society's access to information and serve as a basis for evidence-based analyses, surveys and public policies. This initiative adds to the efforts undertaken in previous Censuses, with the publication of the 2014 National System of Gender Indicators (SNIG) and the Triennial Report of the Division of Population and Social Indicators, “Gender Statistics - Social indicators of women in Brazil” (2017, 2021 and 2024).
By providing an overview dedicated to inequalities between men and women, the IBGE reaffirms its commitment to transparency, the democratization of information and the production of evidences for qualified public decisions, in line with the 2030 Agenda.
