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Retail sales change by 0.3% in November January 15, 2013

In November 2012, retail trade in the country recorded positive change of 0.3% in volume of sales...

Industrial employment remains unchanged in November January 11, 2013

In November 2012, the total salaried employed persons of industry remained unchanged (0.0%) versus the...

IPCA of December stays at 0.79% and closes 2012 at 5.84% January 10, 2013

The Extended Consumer Price Index (IPCA) rose 0.79% in December, staying 0.19 percentage points above...

Industrial output falls in six of the 14 places in November January 09, 2013

The evolution of the quarterly moving average of the national overall showed negative change of...

Industrial output fell by 0.6% in November January 04, 2013

Sixteen of the 27 subsectors surveyed recorded decrease in November The decrease of 0.6% faced by the...

Producer Price Index (IPP): 0.25% in November January 03, 2013

In November 2012, the Producer Price Index (IPP) recorded a 0.25% change over the previous month,...

In November, unemployment was at 4.9% December 21, 2012

In the monthly analysis, the volume of the unemployed (people without a job trying to get in the...

2010 Census: women have higher schooling than men and expand their level of employment December 19, 2012

The 2010 Census showed that, in ten years, the schooling level of women was higher than men’s and...

In December, IPCA-15 changed 0.69% and closed the year at 5.78% December 19, 2012

The Extended Consumer Price Index 15 (IPCA-15) changed 0.69% in December and stood 0.15 percentage...

Civil Registry 2011: Divorce rate goes up 45.6% in one year December 17, 2012

The number of divorces in Brazil reached 351,153 in 2011, with increase of 45.6% over 2010...

Cattle slaughter had record increase in Q3 December 13, 2012

In the 3rd quarter of 2012, a total 8,027 million cattle head were slaughtered, representing...

Retail sales increase by 0.8% in October December 13, 2012

In October, the retail trade changed 0.8% in the volume of sales and 1.1% in the nominal revenue,...

In 2010, 76.9% of the Brazilian enterprises used the Internet for business purposes December 13, 2012

In 2010, of the 2.8 million enterprises with 1 or more employed persons, around 2.2 million...

Vitória (ES) and São Bernardo do Campo (SP) increase contributions to national GDP in 2010, whereas São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro reduce their participation December 12, 2012

Considering the 23 municipalities which represented at least 0.5% of the Brazilian GDP between...

Rice and soybean supplies grow whereas soybean, rice, wheat and coffee fall between 06/30/2011 and 06/30/2012 December 06, 2012

The stock network of agricultural products in the country posted a drop of 0.5% in the number of...

In 2013, IBGE expects grain harvest to be 6.9% higher December 06, 2012

In November 2012, IBGE conducted the second estimate of the area and production for the harvest of 2013....

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