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.
The SEADE Foundation's origins remounts to the late XIX century with the creation of the Repartição da Estatística e Arquivo do Estado (State Division for Statistics and Files) in March 1892.
The Departamento Estadual de Estatística – DEE (State Statistics Department) was created to produce these reports.