BRAZIL: IBGE Holds Knowledge-Transfer Seminar on Census
Agencia Brasil and other outlets reported on 28 August that IBGE, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics and UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, are promoting an international seminar in Rio de Janeiro with support from the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, aimed at sharing experiences on demographics and census with 10 African and Latin American countries. It includes census experiences with countries in emergency or post-crisis situations. For the UNFPA Representative in Brazil, Harold Robinson, the IBGE census is at the forefront of methodologies and technologies application that can help census surveys in other nations. "The Brazilian census has much legitimacy as the country is very complex. Moreover, IBGE is a worldwide reference and has a tradition of sharing knowledge with developing countries for many years." Read in Portuguese: Agencia Brasil, Terra Portal, ESP Brasil