Methodological review of the urban-rural typology in the 2022 Demographic Census

This article deals with the methodological review of the differentiation of urban and rural areas and enumerations areas in the 2022 Demographic Census. As such a methodology is the result of an evolutionary process of understanding the territory, involving a wide range of techniques, instances and scales, our study sought, in a synthetic manner, to rescue the history of this differentiation in Brazilian territorial planning, confronting different objectives and conceptual bases, such as statistical purposes, territorial management, and geographic analyses. Subsequently, the new conceptual framework of the Census Cartography is presented, constructed, for the first time, based on the use of high-resolution orbital images that, supported by fieldwork, brought the census section closer to the space lived and perceived by people. This context gives the initiative an innovative character, which will guide the dissemination of updated data for both urban and rural scenarios, as well as for rural settlements, cities, and towns, an important input necessary to understand the concentration and dispersion of the population throughout the country and their respective modes of life.