Caio Gonçalves is a Researcher at João Pinheiro Foundation, Regional Statistical Office of the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. PhD Candidate in Population, Territory and Official Statistics at the National School of Statistical Sciences (ENCE) from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). 

His developing thesis is about producing labour force model-based figures with higher frequency and small domains using time series analysis for repeated surveys. 

He also works as a Consultant at IBGE developing models to estimate the population at census enumeration areas using satellite images, administrative records and survey data. 

His main interest areas are model-based approaches for producing official/public statistics, big data, time series analysis and small area estimation.