POF

Brazilians with lower income consume more rice and beans than processed food August 21, 2020

Rice, beans, French roll, cassava flour, corn and fresh fish are more present in households with lower income than in households with higher income....

POF

Consumption of saturated fat drops in 10 years, intake of sugar and salt still high August 21, 2020

The diet of Brazilians has changed in ten years, which managed to change the consumption profile of some nutrients. In this period, the intake of...

PNAD COVID19

13.3 million persons had been tested for Covid-19 by July August 20, 2020

About 13.3 million persons (6.3% of the population) had been tested for Covid-19 by July and a total 2.7 million (20.4%) tested positive for the...

CENSUS OF AGRICULTURE

IBGE includes meso-region and micro-region territorial divisions in 2017 Census of Agriculture data August 18, 2020

Data from the 2017 Census of Agriculture with territorial divisions of meso-regions and micro-regions were included in the IBGE System of Automatic...

Enterprise Pulse Survey

Four out of every 10 enterprises still undergo the negative effects of Covid-19 in the first half of July August 18, 2020

Of the 2.8 million enterprises operating in Brazil in the first half of July, 44.8% perceived a negative effect from Covid-19; 28.2%, reported a...

Evento Online

Seminar recalls 40 years of IPCA, discusses future of inflation measurement August 14, 2020

PNAD COVID19

Due to pandemic, 3 million persons got jobless in Brazil August 14, 2020

As shown in the weekly edition of PNAD COVID19, released today (14) by the IBGE, nearly three million persons got jobless due to the pandemic. The...

Livestock

Slaughter of hogs and pigs up in Q2 of 2020 reaching 12 million animals August 13, 2020

Livestock production in Brazil fell in the slaughter of cattle and chickens in the second quarter of 2020. Only the slaughter of hogs and pigs grew,...

PMS

After four months of decrease, services grow 5% in June August 13, 2020

The services sector advanced 5% from May to June and interrupted a sequence of negative rates in the previous four months, when it accumulated a...

Continuous PNAD - Tourism

Brazilians do not travel often, usually take trips by car and bus and stay with relatives or friends August 12, 2020

In about one out of every five households in the country, no resident took a trip in the months of April to August 2019. The reason reported by almost...

PMC

Sales rise 8% in June, worst semester of Trade since 2016 August 12, 2020

Volume of sales of the retail increased 8% in June, after the record growth of 14.4% in May. Despite the positive figures in these two months, the...

Industry rises in 14 of 15 places surveyed in June August 11, 2020

Gradually recovering the production, the Brazilian industry rose in 14 out of the 15 places surveyed by the Regional Monthly Industrial Survey -...

Agricultural production

IBGE: In July, estimated harvest increase for 2020 is 3.8% August 11, 2020

The national harvest of grain is expected to reach 250.5 million metric tons and hit a new record in 2020, according to the July estimates of the...

PNAD COVID19

Number of persons away from work due to the pandemic falls to 6.2 million in the 3rd week of July August 07, 2020

The number of persons temporarily away from work due to social distancing fell for the eighth week in a row, with a change from 7 million in the...

Sinapi

Rise of cement, collective work agreement in SP rise costs of civil construction by 0.49% in July August 07, 2020

Released today (7) by the IBGE, the National Index of Civil Construction - Sinapi increased 0.49% in July, the highest rise in the year. The rate...

IPCA

Gasoline and electricity take inflation to 0.36%, the highest one for July since 2016 August 07, 2020

The influence of July stood at 0.36%, influenced, mainly, by gasoline and electricity prices, the two items of greatest impact and which underwent...

Continuous PNAD

Unemployment rises to 13.3% in Q2, with record reduction of employed persons August 06, 2020

The number of employed persons in Brazil had a record reduction of 9.6% in the quarter ended in June over the previous quarter: the drop was of 8.9...

National industry

Industry grows 8.9% in June, led by rise in vehicle production August 04, 2020

The output of industry in Brazil grew 8.9% in June, against May (8.2%), according to the Monthly Survey of Industry (PIM), released today (4) by...

PNAD COVID19

Remote work falls for the first time with relaxation of social distancing July 31, 2020

In the second week of July, the group of persons that was temporarily away from work due to social distancing remained dropping, 1.2 million less...

Producer Prices

Industry inflation decelerates to 0.61% in June, even with high in ethanol and petroleum prices July 31, 2020

Industry prices rose 0.61% in June over the previous month, with the main impact coming from the activities related to petroleum derivatives and...