The article analysis, infirst place, the importance ofinformationfor knowledge generation and the role and specificities of social-economic statistics in this process. The following presents how the production of these statistics is organized and the most important and recent transformations of which it went through the two main public agencies of this area in the country: the IBGE and Seade Foundation. It also deals with the issue of different standards offinancing existent and the motives of why they were adopted. In the final part, it discusses the issue of dissemination from the model existent before Internet, the impact of technological revolution and the new challenges deriving from the changes of the financing model.
statistical information; internet; information cost