May 29 is the date that the Statistician Day, the Geographer Day and the anniversary of the IBGE are celebrated. Also in this occasion, the Department of Statistics and Applied Mathematics (DEMA) of the Federal University of Ceará (UFC) annually carries out the Statistical Week (SEST). Now in the 15th edition, the event counted with the participation of the IBGE Superintendent in Ceará, Francisco Lopes, who was invited to speak about the Methodology of the 2022 Population Census.

The UFC´s Statistical Week is in the XV edition

“I want to thank Francisco Lopes for representing the IBGE and accepting the invitation to open this event. It is very important to have this feedback in relation to the Census. Everybody is looking forward to these results,” stated Professor Júlio Francisco Barros Neto, head of DEMA-UFC, when introducing the speaker.

The IBGE Superintendent began his speech reminding his times at the UFC. “I joined as a student in the Statistics course in 1976 and graduated in 1980, so I am a statistician for 43 years. I am also a teacher for 48 years and I even taught in this course. It is always very good to return here,” commented Lopes, who will complete 50 years as an IBGE servant in December.

The IBGE Superintedent in Ceará, Francisco Lopes, celebrated the opportunity to return to the UFC, where he graduated and was a teacher

In one hour, the Superintendent described a number of details of the Population Census, explaining concepts like questionnaires, enumeration areas, DMCs, areas and sub-areas, etc. He also reflected on the relevance of the data produced by the IBGE, both under the statistical and geographic perspectives, as well as under the social perspective: “The IBGE aims at portraying Brazil for the exercise of citizenship. Yesterday we managed to complete the 2022 Population Census. And we have already a release date: June 28, 2023. When we have the results of the Census, public policies will be developed to improve the life of Brazilian citizens.”

In addition to the presentation of the IBGE Superintendence in Ceará (SES-CE), the two days of the event (May 29 and 30) will have other presentations to discuss the theme ‘Statistics and Data Science’. Promoted by DEMA in partnership with the Tutorial Education Program of the Statistics course (PET Statistics UFC), the Academic Center May XXIX (CAEST) and the Junior Enterprise of Statistics (GAUSS), the XV Statistical Week is an on-site and free event.

In addition to the presentation on the Census methodology, the event will have other presentations on Statistics and Data Science