The most important goal of a statistical operation is to obtain data correctly collected, accurate, true and potentially useful for society as a whole. This is even truer when it comes to a Population Census, which can benefit a population of about 215 million inhabitants.

The IBGE expects active collaboration of state and municipal governments, from the planning stage to the execution of the data collection phase of the 2022 Population Census. Particularly in the preparation phase, the updating of Census Mapping - a description of borders, maps and lists - is a hard and expensive task. The partnership with city halls and state planning agencies is, especially at this stage, a fundamental element for the success of a census. These institutions have more up-to-date municipal and cadastral maps (urbanized areas) than those the IBGE has. That is, they have material that better reflects the local reality, largely guaranteeing the quality of the information collected, avoiding gaps in the coverage of the municipal area, speeding up the collection and reducing the costs of the operation.

It should be noted that the results of the Population Census have their relevance reinforced when one considers the implications of using its information and of the population projections - made based on them - carried out in the intercensal decade, for the distribution of the Revenue Sharing Funds of States and Municipalities.