IBGE open data: retrieval in the aggregated data API

Abstract

Objective: The publication of data opened by the government has as its main objective or its reuse by society. As the increase in the volume of available data, machine processing was one of two essential requirements to promote interoperability, thus allowing the effective reuse of open government data. This data article aims to reveal the data collection process in the IBGE aggregate data API, which makes available aggregate data from surveys and censuses carried out in Brazil. Method: This research is characterized as descriptive and exploratory, with a qualitative, and applied approach because it involves a practical problem that collects two data in the IBGE aggregate data API. For this reason, a documentary search was carried out to identify the broken points (endpoints) available and the parameters existing in the API, which will allow the implementation of “filters” to recover data and relevant information in a universe with many sets of aggregated data. Reuse potential: The availability of two sets of IBGE research data, in an automated manner, allows them to be monitored, recovered and used in the direction and maintenance of public policies, contributing to the identification of patterns, behaviors and habits of the population, by various segments of civil society, including companies (public and private), promoting new digital business models that use data and information from different contexts, creating new products, services and occupations.