Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics

The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (; IBGE) is a government body responsible for collecting, processing, compiling and publishing statistics and geographic information of the Brazilian physical and socioeconomic landscapes and the country's demographics. The IBGE operates the national census decennially, whereby the population is surveyed for data such as household income, level of education, employment status and occupation, access to public services and infrastructure, and general demographics.

The IBGE is a public institute created in 1936 under the name ''National Institute of Statistics''. Its founder and chief proponent was statistician Mário Augusto Teixeira de Freitas. The current name dates from 1938. Its headquarters are located in Rio de Janeiro, and its current president is Marcio Pochmann, replacing Eduardo Rios Neto. It was made a federal agency by the Federal Decree-Law No. 161 of February 13, 1967, and is linked to the Ministry of the Economy, inside the Secretariat of Planning, Budget and Management. Provided by Wikipedia