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Informality increases, continues to reduce unemployment October 31, 2017

Of the 91.3 million employed persons in the quarter ended in September, 22.9 million persons were...

Continuous PNAD: unemployment rate is 12.4% in quarter ending in September October 31, 2017

The unemployment rate (12.4%) retreated 0.6 percentage points in the July-August-September 2017...

The art and statistics of food products October 30, 2017

Text: Pedro RenauxImage: Licia Rubinstein

Cities as classrooms October 27, 2017

Due either to the real estate speculation or to the urban design of the public administration, the...

IPP accelerates, pressed by petroleum derivatives and biofuels October 26, 2017

The Producer Price Index - IPP, which measures the price changes in industry free from taxes and...

Producer Price Index changes 1.50% in September October 26, 2017

The prices of the mining and manufacturing industries rose 1.50% in September 2017, above the...

Uruguayan delegation joins Census of Agriculture in southernmost reaches of Brazil October 25, 2017

The municipality of Sant’Ana do Livramento/RS, at the border of Brazil and Uruguay, was chosen to...

Turning analog signal off, new step in transition to digital October 24, 2017

After broadcasting from the satellites to our TV screens for six decades, the analog signal has...

Rural Amazon: peculiarities of rural areas in forests October 23, 2017

Maybe one of the less known forms that rural areas are present in the Brazilian territory is in...

Bottled gas rockets up inflation forecast for October October 20, 2017

With three increases in a row, the price of bottled gas (5.72% up) was one of the main responsible of the high...

IPCA-15 reaches 0.34% in October October 20, 2017

The Extended National Consumer Price Index 15 (IPCA-15) was of 0.34% in October and stood 0.23...

Website allows identity checking of IBGE enumerators October 19, 2017

It is quite common for people to feel uncomfortable when visited by enumerators at their home or...

“Green GDP”: Brazilan environmental heritage to be calculated by IBGE October 18, 2017

The IBGE, which is responsible for calculating the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), will also release the...

Women look for formal economy more than men in Brazil October 18, 2017

Women show a higher proportion of enterprises registered in the National Directory of Legal...

Percentage of persons working in large-sized enterprises falls in 2016 October 18, 2017

Among 73.7 million employers, self-employed workers and employees – excluding those from the...

IBGE begins to release thematic modules of Continuous PNAD October 17, 2017

The IBGE releases tomorrow, October 18, the Additional Characteristics of the Labor Market...

Drop in Food and Lodging contributes to low August in services October 17, 2017

The only activity down in August in the comparison with July, the sector of services rendered to...

Services Sector down 1.0% in August October 17, 2017

In August, the Services sector decreased 1.0% in relation to July, after the drop of 0.8% in July...

SDG #5: Reach gender equality, empower all women and girls October 16, 2017

The fourth edition of the Retratos Magazine launches a series of interviews with IBGE technicians...

Pink October encourages breast cancer prevention October 13, 2017

When you see Valéria Amaral smiling in her office, you can hardly tell that she's faced cancer...

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