SEADE
The Fundação Sistema Estadual de Análise de Dados (Statewise System for Data Analysis Foundation), known as Fundação SEADE (SEADE Foundation), is an independent public agency sponsored by the São Paulo state in Brazil. It is linked to São Paulo's Planning and Management Office (Secretaria de Planejamento e Gestão). It is a national reference center for producing and disseminating socioeconomic and demographic analysis. 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. It allows impact assessment of public policies over its 645 municipalities.