Ministério do Planejamento, Orçamento e Gestão
Monthly Employment Survey - PME
Estimates for August 2008 (thousand persons)
Metropolitan Area: Recife
Minimum age: 10 years
| Specification | Aug/07 | Jul/08 | Aug/08 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Persons at active age | 3,081 | 3,141 | 3,145 |
| Economically active persons (PEA) | 1,525 | 1,515 | 1,470 |
| Non-economically active persons (PNEA) | 1,556 | 1,627 | 1,675 |
| Employed persons | 1,329 | 1,361 | 1,349 |
| Unemployed persons | 197 | 153 | 121 |
| Persons marginally connected to PEA | 137 | 111 | 110 |
| Discouraged persons | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Persons who left their last job in the period of the last 365 days | 163 | 138 | 126 |
| Underemployed persons due to insufficient working hours | 79 | 67 | 65 |
| Employed persons with income/hour, minimum wage/hour | 447 | 489 | 452 |
| Workers with a formal contract signed in the formal sector (*) | 489 | 509 | 515 |
| Workers without a formal contract in the private sector (**) | 186 | 176 | 170 |
| Employment rate | 87.1 | 89.9 | 91.7 |
| Unemployment rate | 12.9 | 10.1 | 8.3 |
| Percentage of underemployed persons due to insufficient working hours | 5.9 | 4.9 | 4.8 |
| Percentage of employed persons with income/hour, minimum wage/hour | 33.6 | 35.9 | 33.5 |
| Percentage of employed persons looking for a job in the period of last 30 days | 5.8 | 2.7 | 2.1 |
| Distribution of persons at active age (%): | |||
| Economically active (Activity Rate) | 49.5 | 48.2 | 46.7 |
| Employed | 43.1 | 43.3 | 42.9 |
| Unemployed | 6.4 | 4.9 | 3.9 |
| Non-economically active | 50.5 | 51.8 | 53.3 |
| Distribution of employed persons (%) - Main activity | |||
| Groups of activity | |||
| Mining and quarrying ind. and production and distrib. of electricity, gas and water | 11.1 | 11.0 | 10.8 |
| Construction | 5.6 | 6.5 | 6.1 |
| Trade, repair of automotive vehicles and of personal and domestic objects and retail trade of fuels | 24.5 | 25.1 | 25.5 |
| Financial mediation, real estate activities, rents and services rendered to enterprises | 14.1 | 13.4 | 13.2 |
| Public administration, defense, social security, education, health and social services | 18.5 | 19.1 | 19.6 |
| Domestic services | 8.9 | 8.0 | 8.1 |
| Other services | 16.3 | 16.0 | 15.8 |
| Other activities | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.9 |
| Position in the actitvity | |||
| Workers | 73.6 | 72.2 | 73.3 |
| Workers with a formal contract (***) | 41.1 | 40.7 | 41.4 |
| Workers without a formal contract (***) | 22.5 | 20.8 | 20.8 |
| Own-account | 20.7 | 23.2 | 22.6 |
| Employers | 4.4 | 3.4 | 3.1 |
| Non-paid workers | 1.3 | 1.2 | 1.0 |
| Distribution of non-economically active persons (PNEA): | |||
| PNEA who would like and were available to work (%) | 20.2 | 17.5 | 19.4 |
| Marginally connected to PEA | 8.8 | 6.8 | 6.6 |
| Discouraged | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 |
| PNEA who would like and were not available to work (%) | 1.9 | 2.0 | 1.9 |
| Distribution of unemployed persons (%): (by job searching period) |
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| Up to 30 days | 31.3 | 47.8 | 43.4 |
| From 31 days to 6 months | 49.2 | 35.8 | 40.2 |
| From 7 to11 months | 3.6 | 3.5 | 3.5 |
| From 1 year to less than 2 years | 8.4 | 8.5 | 9.0 |
(*) Except domestic workers
(**) Except domestic workers and non-paid workers of the housing unit in which they were employed
(***) Including domestic workers