THE BRAZILIAN CENSUS FAILS
BRAZILIAN CENSUS PROBLEMS MAKE TO RISE DOUBTS TO THE BRAZILIAN PEOPLE INFORMATIONS
The brazilian census demonstrated to be not too righteous than it seemed. It's incredible, but the fact of the IBGE (Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística) is managed by the brother of the brazilian humourist Bussunda can be coincident, but the Brazil Census 2000 situation is tragicomic. According to a brazilian news magazine Época report, the census takers not even visited all the houses all over the country, so many people laid out to be interviewed. People want to ask if so many man from Salvador "runned out" or simply for their absence in their dependent's homes, for the obvious reason of working, during the census takers visiting, those men just "not exist" in the official population of Salvador.
Thus the diffusion of Salvador's population informations in 2000 were very coy. Oficially, there's more 142.603 women than men, in proportion of "100 females to 89 males". To say that "there's more women than men" in the capital of Bahia, the press made constrained and awkward comments. There's a suspect that the Salvador press reporters were forced to diffuse an information that, according to the everyday reality, it's not veridical anymore, once that concrete facts and probable hypothesis indicate the male hegemony in the capital of Bahia.
Let's see some problems related to the brazilian census of 2000:
- Two kinds of questionaries were applied: one, so simple, known as "basic questionary" and other, so complex, known as "sample questionary". This last was applied only in some residences, according to some rules. In the most of the domiciles researched were applied questionaries from the basic kind, imperfect for the extreme generalization of the informations. If the sample questionary would be applied in all of residences, the research could not be so perfect, but the result will be so much near to reality.
- The criterions of permanent residence and temporary residence are doubtful. There's no exact ideal if so much men live in Salvador, or they just work or spend few times in the capital of Bahia. The impression is, according to the official informations diffused in the Brazil Census 2000, that the men from Bahia prefer to be a field billy in the interior of Bahia and to marry with their chickens and cows (exactly in these terms), in a provincial small city that lives the first times of electric illumination.
- So many questionaries haven't done and too many people laid out to be interviewed. Several reasons influenced, including since the drug traffic bosses in favela communities until the hard access areas, or also the fact of the census takers wouldn't to go in some places, fot their own will or for the will of their superiors.
- Moreover, to diffuse the number of the population from Bahia, a make-up had done to "confirm" the now fantasious hegemony of the women in Salvador. Of course, the Salvador population had updated, but the "female hegemony" is based on the old estathistics, from the 1980 census. Everything is done for stimulating the sex tourism, activity that makes the richness of the Bahia authorities, local managers of foreign executives involved in the process.