Since the imperial era, the number of municipalities in Brazil has risen
continually and substantially. These changes in the delineation of
spatial units pose a difficulty for any research that intends to use
regional data from different years. The present book develops a routine
for the generation of time-consistent 'Minimum Comparable Areas' (AMC)
for any arbitrary sub-period between two census years in the range
between the first and last demographic census 1872-2010. It relies on
recently compiled material by the Brazilian Institute for Geography and
Statistics (IBGE). The corresponding Stata code is provided in the
Appendix of the book. Thus, the developed AMCs are immediately
accessible and enable long-term panel studies with regional data.