Law on Access to Information at the most important Brazilian federal universities

Alcantara, Naiara Sandi Almeida

doi:10.1590/1809-58442023112en

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Articles • Intercom, Rev. Bras. Ciênc. Comun. 46 • 2023 • https://doi.org/10.1590/1809-58442023112en copy

Law on Access to Information at the most important Brazilian federal universities

Authorship SCIMAGO INSTITUTIONS RANKINGS

Abstract

This article analyzes requests for public information directed to Brazilian federal universities, between 2012 and 2019. The research questions that guide the investigation are: (i) what is the profile of individuals who request information from federal universities in Brazil?; (ii) what topics most interest applicants?; (iii) how has the distribution of requests occurred over time since the implementation of the Access to Information Law in 2012?; The descriptive analysis of the e-SIC portal reports shows that requests to universities are made by federal civil servants, students, professors or researchers. The requests come from male individuals, with complete higher education and belonging to the same region of the institution investigated. The most prominent themes are associated with higher education. The data indicates a significant growth in the number of requests sent to universities during the period analyzed.

Keywords
Access to Information Law; Transparency; Federal universities

	Institution	Acronym	Note
1	Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul	UFRGS	4,31
2	Federal University of Minas Gerais	UFMG	4,22
3	Federal University of São Paulo	UNIFESP	4,15
4	Federal University of Santa Catarina	UFSC	4,09
5	Federal University of Rio de Janeiro	UFRJ	4,07

Profession	N – average	Sex	N – average
Federal civil servant	426	Male	726
Student	279	Female	639,2
Teacher	102,2	Not informed	99,4
Researcher	85,6	Total	7323
Employee – Private Sector	82,6
State Public Servant	45	Schooling	N – average
Liberal Professional/Self-Employed	42,2	Superior	1109
Journalist	30,2	Medium	208,2
Municipal civil servant	41,8	Fundamental	17,4
Businessman/Entrepreneur	18,4	Not informed	127,8
Member of a political party	1,25	No Instruction	5,5
Other	71,2	Total	7373
Not informed	172	-	-
Total	7323	-	-

UFRGS		UFMG		UNIFESP		UFSC		UFRJ
Origin	N (%)	Origin	N (%)	Origin	N (%)	Origin	N (%)	Origin	N (%)
South	587 (46,5)	Southeast	930 (58,3)	Southeast	669 (60,8)	South	598 (45,2)	Southeast	1383 (67,7)
Southeast	211 (16,7)	Northeast	204 (12,8)	Northeast	131 (11,9)	Southeast	221 (16,7)	Northeast	180 (8,8)
Northeast	171 (13,5)	Midwest	140 (8,7)	Midwest	103 (9,3)	Northeast	169 (12,8)	Midwest	119 (5,8)
Midwest	119 (9,4)	South	77 (4,8)	South	66 (6)	Midwest	131 (9,9)	South	110 (5,4)
North	43 (3,4)	North	46 (2,9)	North	21 (1,9)	North	50 (3,8)	North	42 (2)
Other countries	10 (0,7)	Other countries	9 (0,5)	Other countries	9 (0,8)	Other countries	9 (0,7)	Other countries	18 (0,9)
Not informed	121 (9,6)	Not informed	190 (11,9)	Not informed	101 (9,2)	Not informed	145 (10,9)	Not informed	190 (9,3)
TOTAL	1262 (100)	TOTAL	1596 (100)	TOTAL	1100 (100)	TOTAL	1323 (100)	TOTAL	2042 (100)

THEMES	UFRGS	UFMG	UNIFESP	UFSC	UFRJ
THEMES	N (%)	N (%)	N (%)	N (%)	N (%)
Agriculture, Extractivism and Fisheries	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	1 (0)	1 (0)
Science, Information and Communication	28 (2)	67 (3,8)	43 (3,7)	8 (0,4)	153 (5,5)
Commerce, Services and Tourism	5 (0,3)	4 (0,2)	0 (0)	7 (0,3)	5 (0,2)
Culture, Leisure and Sport	0 (0)	8 (0,4)	0 (0)	1 (0)	0 (0)
Defense and Security	2 (0,1)	11 (0,6)	0 (0)	1 (0)	0 (0)
Economics and Finance	22 (1,5)	125 (7)	27 (2,3)	21 (1,1)	15 (0,5)
Education	1177 (85,2)	1535 (86,8)	561 (48,7)	1761 (94)	2471 (89)
Government & Politics	12 (0,8)	0 (0)	231 (20)	0 (0)	16 (0,6)
Housing, Sanitation and Urbanism	1 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)
Justice and Legislation	18 (1,3)	1 (0)	5 (0,4)	0 (0)	4 (0,1)
Environment	4 (0,2)	0 (0)	4 (0,3)	0 (0)	1 (0)
Person, Family and Society	8 (0,6)	6 (0,3)	11 (0,9)	7 (0,3)	2 (0)
International relations	3 (0,2)	0 (0)	0 (0)	1 (0)	0 (0)
Health	0 (0)	9 (0,5)	0 (0)	1 (0)	8 (0,3)
Work	94 (6,8)	2 (0,1)	270 (23,4)	60 (3,2)	98 (3,5)
Transportation & Transit	7 (0,5)	0 (0)	0 (0)	4 (0,2)	0 (0)
TOTAL	1381 (100)	1768 (100)	1152 (100)	1873 (100)	2774 (100)

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[1] Naiara Sandi Almeida Alcantara

PhD in Political Science (UFPR), with post-doctorate in Political Science (UFPA). E-mail: nayara_sandy@hotmail.com.