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IBGE releases new edition of report on methodological review of calculation of reference heights September 30, 2019

The IBGE periodically recalculates the heights of more than 70 thousand points in different...

Unemployment decreases to 11.8% and informal work hits highest level in the time series September 27, 2019

Unemployment rate fell once more and hit 11.8% in the quarter ended August, after a result of...

Continuous PNAD: unemployment rate is 11.8% and underutilization rate is 24.3% in quarter ended August 2019 September 27, 2019

The unemployment rate (11.8%) in the moving quarter ended quarter August 2019 decreased by 0.4...

For the first time, IBGE carries out survey on patient check-in in public health system September 26, 2019

The IBGE has introduced a new feature in the National Survey of Health (PNS), in the field since...

In spite of the Maria da Penha Law, only 2.4% of the municipalities have shelters for women September 25, 2019

In 2018, 12 years after the Maria da Penha Law was sanctioned, only 2.4% of the Brazilian...

Just 5.5% of the municipalities with immigrants have services targeted at this population September 25, 2019

Of the 3,876 municipalities with immigrants, only 215 offer some sort of migration management...

MUNIC 2018: Only 8.3% of the municipalities have women’s police stations September 25, 2019

In 2018, only 8.3% of the municipalities had women’s police stations and 9.7% of the Brazilian...

Estadic 2018: 15 of the 27 Federation Units have a state food and nutrition security plan September 25, 2019

In 2018, 15 Federation Units had a State Food and Nutrition Security Plan. In 2013, 10 did. Laos...

Iron ore pushes rise of industry prices after two consecutive decreases September 25, 2019

The rise of prices of iron ore abroad and the appreciation of the dollar currency led to an...

Producer Price Index (IPP) changes 0.92% in August September 25, 2019

The prices of industry changed by 0.92% in August 2019, a result above that of July (-1.20%). The...

With eight highs in electricity in a row, inflation forecast stands at 0.09 in September September 24, 2019

Affected by the eighth consecutive increase in electricity, September's Extended Consumer Price...

IPCA-15 changes 0.09% in September and IPCA-E reaches 0.26% September 24, 2019

The Extended National Consumer Price Index 15 (IPCA-15) changed 0.09% in September, close to the...

Cattle herd is smaller in 2018, a year marked by growth in slaughter and exports September 20, 2019

All the animal inventories recorded increases in 2018, except cattle herd, which fell by 0.7%,...

PPM 2018: cattle herd decreases and national output of milk per cow surpasses two thousand liters a year September 20, 2019

Cattle herd recorded its second decrease in a row in 2018 (-0.7%) and amounted to 213.5 million...

Steel sector drives high of 50.5% in production value of charcoal in 2018 September 19, 2019

The production value in silviculture – production from planted forests – rose 11.1% and reached...

PEVS 2018: silviculture and wild-crop harvesting reach R$20.6 billion and grow 8.0% over 2017 September 19, 2019

The value of silvicullture and wild-crop harvesting amounted to R$ 20.6 billion in 2018, recording an...

Graph shows the 20 most populous municipalities since the first census September 17, 2019

When the first Census was performed, in 1872, Brazil was an Empire with less than 10 million...

IBGE releases 2nd edition of the Technical Manual of Quality Assessment for Geospatial Data September 17, 2019

The present publication follows international ISO standards, national technical specifications and...

States' GDP: 20 years of contribution to regional development September 13, 2019

Twenty years ago, the IBGE disclosed the first States' GDP, with information from 1985 to1997....

Services sector grows 0.8% in July, but does not recove losses this year September 12, 2019

Despite the increase of 0.8% between June and July 2019, the highest since December 2018, the...

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