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Methodology and sources

How CircuitoBR Cidades organizes public data by municipality — with source, date and transparency. We never estimate or invent numbers.

Our methodology

CBR Tourism Intelligence

It is CircuitoBR’s method to capture, organize and qualify the portrait of each municipality across five dimensions — economy and labor, tourism, culture and the creative economy, governance and sustainability. Each indicator comes with source and date; completeness measures how much of that portrait is already filled in.

CBR Tourism Intelligence is aligned with RITS (the Tourism Intelligence Network of the State of São Paulo, SETUR-SP) — and goes further: we already capture more than RITS requires. RITS is still consolidating in São Paulo; CircuitoBR already operates the model, with the ambition of becoming the tourism intelligence standard for all of Brazil.

Principles

What makes each number reliable and comparable across municipalities.

Source and date, always

Every indicator shows its official source and reference date. Without a verifiable date, the data is not published.

Honest absence

Where data does not yet exist, we say so clearly. “Not applicable” is different from “not yet available” — and we never fill the gap with an estimate.

Completeness, not a grade

The badge measures the Completeness of CBR Tourism Intelligence — how much of the data is filled in — not the quality of the destination.

ISS in layers

Total ISS is public (SICONFI/Treasury, under the Fiscal Responsibility Law) and is always shown. The tourism breakdown is only published with a recorded agreement from the municipal management.

Characterization apart

Population, GDP, IDEB, IDHM and climate are diagnostic context — they do not count toward the dimensions’ completeness.

Proxy flagged

Municipality-total indicators used as an approximation (energy, water) always come with an explicit methodological note.

Data sources

A catalog of public origins and of CircuitoBR’s own data. It grows as new ingestions come in.

Body / source What it provides Update Dimension
IBGE Population, territorial mesh, GDP, geographic regions Annual Characterization
Novo CAGED — Ministry of Labor Hirings, dismissals and net jobs in tourism activities Monthly Economy
Federal Revenue Service Active companies (CNPJ) linked to tourism, openings and size Monthly Economy
SICONFI — National Treasury Total ISS collected by the municipality (under the Fiscal Responsibility Law) Annual Economy
CADASTUR — Ministry of Tourism Certified tourism service providers Continuous Tourism
CETESB / SINISA Bathing-water quality, sanitation, water and waste Periodic Sustainability
INEP IDEB and educational indicators Biennial Characterization
Atlas Brasil (UNDP/Ipea/FJP) Municipal HDI (IDHM) Census-based Characterization
INMET Climate characterization Continuous Characterization
CircuitoBR Tourism inventory, registered offering, cultural agenda and governance (CBR) Continuous Tourism · Culture

Public-source data, organized by CircuitoBR. Official sources are cited without a suffix; our own inventory data is identified with “CBR”. Machine-readable index at /llms.txt.

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