# Methodology and sources

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

## CBR Tourism Intelligence

It is CircuitoBR’s method for capturing, organizing and qualifying the portrait of each municipality across five dimensions: economy and work, 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 follows the Indicator Matrix of the Sustainable Tourism Intelligence Network of the State of São Paulo (RITS-SP), a Working Group established by SETUR-SP Resolution no. 34/2025 and coordinated by CIET: 15 indicators, organized by the Matrix into four dimensions (economic, environmental, sociocultural and governance). Each municipality’s dossier shows which apply and which are filled in.

### The completeness yardstick

The completeness yardstick uses the Matrix’s 15 indicators. Indicators that do not apply to the municipality (no airport, no coastline and no river or lake monitoring point, no Conservation Unit) leave the denominator.

## Principles

- **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 exist yet, we say so clearly. "Not applicable" is different from "not yet available", and we never fill gaps with estimates.
- **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 and do not count toward the completeness of the dimensions.
- **Proxy flagged**: Municipality-total indicators used as an approximation (energy, water) always come with an explicit methodological note.
- **The CBR suffix on sources**: When the source of a number is CircuitoBR itself (data reported by the municipal administration or the platform inventory) rather than an official body, the source carries the CBR suffix and an ⓘ next to it. Official sources (IBGE, CAGED, Federal Revenue, SICONFI, CETESB, ANAC, Tourism Map and others) appear without the suffix.

## Data sources

| 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, month by month (RREO Annex 03, under the Fiscal Responsibility Law) | Bimonthly | Economy |
| CADASTUR / Ministry of Tourism | Tourism service providers in operation (latest extraction) | Continuous | Tourism |
| ANAC | Public aerodromes (coordinates) and per-airport movements (RIMA) | Monthly | Tourism |
| CETESB | Beach bathing-water quality, river and lake quality (WQI) and solid 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 |
| Brazilian Tourism Map (MTur) | Tourism region and municipal category (Regionalization Program) | Biennial | Governance |
| SINISA / SNIS (Ministry of Cities) | Water and sewage coverage (share of the population served) | Annual | Sustainability |
| CircuitoBR | Tourism inventory, registered offering, cultural agenda and governance (CBR) | Continuous | Tourism · Culture |


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Public-source data, organized by CircuitoBR. Each block states its source and reference date.

_Methodology and sources: https://cidades.circuito.tur.br/metodologia_

_lang: en · 2026-09-20_