SEADE
The Fundação Sistema Estadual de Análise de Dados, known as Fundação SEADE, is an independent public agency sponsored by the São Paulo state in Brazil. It is linked to São Paulo's Planning and Management Office. It is a national reference center for producing and disseminating socioeconomic and demographic analysis. SEADE performs direct research and data gathering using information from other sources, compiling a huge dataset and publishing it for free. Those datasets allow picturing several aspects of the socioeconomic reality and historical evolution of the São Paulo state, its regions, and municipalities.
Its extensive and diverse product line helps public administrators, businesses, journalists, academics, and other citizens learn about São Paulo's social/economic evolution. It allows impact assessment of public policies over its 645 municipalities.
History
The SEADE Foundation's origins remounts to the late XIX century with the creation of the Repartição da Estatística e Arquivo do Estado in March 1892.In 1936, the, endorsed by all Brazilian states, regularly established the mandatory publication of standardized statewide statistical annuaries. The Departamento Estadual de Estatística – DEE was created to produce these reports. Regulated by an, the DEE took over the services of the Repartição da Estatística e do Arquivo. It became the new central organization for statistics for the São Paulo state.
In 1950, the DEE was replaced by the Departamento de Estatística do Estado de São Paulo – DEESP.
In 1976, the DEESP was incorporated by the Coordenadoria de Análise de Dados – CAD. The CAD was responsible for the Sistema Estadual de Análise de Dados Estatísticos, created in 1975. In 1978,, created the Fundação Sistema Estadual de Análise de Dados – SEADE. The following year, its statutes were approved by when the Foundation got its current juridic form and operating rules.