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International observers of 2022 Census share experiences on data collection in six cities

Eduardo Rios Neto, president of the IBGE, shows his gratitude for the support of international institutions during the “Observing the Census” project - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/ IBGE News Agency Attended by observers from statistical agencies of 18 countries in North, Central and South America and Africa,...

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Industry loses 9.6 thousand enterprises and one million jobs in ten years

Number of industrial enterprises records seventh decrease in a row in 2020. - Photo: José Fernando Ogura/AEN-PR In 2020, Brazil had 303.6 thousand enterprises with one or more employed persons, being 6.3 thousand in the mining and quarrying segment and 297.3 thousand in the manufacturing one. These enterprises...

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Miriam Leitão reflects upon the country's future at inaugural class in School of Statistics

The journalist presented the result of nearly three years of interviews, trips and data analyses - Photo: Álvaro Vasconcellos/IBGE Journalist Miriam Leitão gave a lecture, yesterday (11), at the inaugural class of the Doctoral and Master's Program of Population, Territory and Public Statistics, at the National...

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Inflation forecat speeds up in April with the highest rate since truckers' strike

Gasoline prices - up 3.22% - exert biggest single impact on April IPCA-15 - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency After recording a 0.54% high in March, the inflation preview accelerated to 0.72% in April, driven by price increases in the groups Transportation and Food and beverages. This is the highest...

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Fuels contribute to deflation of 0.31% in April, lowest index in 22 years

Gasoline deflation was registered in all the 16 areas surveyed in April - Tony Winston/Brasilia Local Branch With a decrease of 9.59% in fuels prices, deflation in the country was 0.31% in April, after recording 0.07% in March. The result is the lowest monthly change since August 1998, when it reached...

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Costs of construction rise 18.65% in 2021, highest rate in nine years

Costs of construction material impacted on the index along the year - Photo: Simone Mello/IBGE News Agency Released today (11) by the IBGE, the National Index of Civil Construction (Sinapi) decelerated to 0.52% in December, the lowest rate in 2021. Even so, the cumulative index in the year hit 18.65%,...

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Retail sales level off in November after series of increases

Hipermarkets and supermarkets record decrease in volume of sales in November - Photo: Helena Pontes/Agência IBGE Notícias After six consecutive months of increase with cumulative gains of 32.2%,volume of sales remained stable from October and November 202, with a change of -0.1%. Against the same period...

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Industry keeps upward trend with 0.3% high

Motor vehicles drive high in industrial production - Photo: Brian Snelson / Wikimedia The national industrial production had a positive change of 0.3% in September over August. It is the second month in a row of growth, leveraged mainly by the production of motor vehicles, with a high of 4.3%. The data...

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Inflation speeds up to 1.16% in September, highest for the month since 1994

With water scarcity flag, electricity rose 6.47% in September and accumulated an increase of 28.82% in 12 months. Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency Inflation rose 1.16% in September, the highest for the month since 1994, when the index was 1.53%. As a result, the indicator accumulates highs of...

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Tomorrow, Producer Price Index will start to provide more detailed information

The IBGE will release tomorrow (05/11) a new edition of the Producer Price Index (IPP), this time relative to September. That will be the first release of the survey with detailed information, in a total 23 new series. With this change, the IPP will have groups data at a three-digit level in the National...

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Costs of civil construction rose 1.07% in November

Rise in the prices of construction is losing pace - Photo: Helga Szpiz/IBGE News Agency Released today (10) by the IBGE, the National Index of Civil Construction (Sinapi) rose 1.07% in November, maintaining the level of the previous month (1.01%). In the cumulative index of the last 12 months, the rate...

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July estimate points to record crop of 263.4 million metric tons in 2022

July estimate points to a record crop of 263.4 million metric tons in 2022 - Photo: Luiz Henrique Magnante/Embrapa The Brazilian harvest of cereals, legumes and oilseeds should reach a record 263.4 million metric tons, according to the July estimate of the Systematic Survey of Agricultural Production...

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GDP grows 3.2% in Q4 but closes the year falling 4.1%, the greatest drop in 25 years

Services rendered to families, as restaurants, were the most affected by the pandemic - Photo: Tomaz Silva/Agência Brasil The country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) advanced 3.2% in the fourth quarter of 2020, but closed the year with a 4.1% decrease, totaling R$ 7.4 trillion. It is the biggest annual...

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IBGE works to reduce refusal rate and complete 2022 Census

Enumerators have been facing difficulties to access condominiums - Picture: Helena Pontes/IBGE News Agency After six months in the field, one of the major challenges to complete the 2022 Census is the high number of refusals to answer the questionnaire. In Brazil, the average rate hits 2.43%, considering...

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Unemployment hits 14 million people in fourth week of September

With the relaxation of the isolation, more people press the labor market looking for jobs - Photo: Bruno Cecim/ Agência Pará According to PNAD COVID19, released today (16) by the IBGE, the number of unemployed persons hit 14 million in the fourth week of September, remaining statistically stable against...

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Health and personal care influence on high in inflation forecast

The inflation forecast of April was of 0.21%. The group within which there is health and personal care had the highest change, 0.69%, and was the one that most had an impact on the result, 0.08 percentage point (pp). The price increases in health insurance (1.06%) and medicines (0.63%) were the main responsible for...

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Eating out consumes one third of expenditures of households with food

Families began to eat more away from home in rural areas, though habit is bigger in urban sector - Photo: IBGE Archive Eating away from home is becoming an option for more and more persons. Of the total expenditures of the Brazilian households with food, nearly one third (32.8%) is dedicated to meals...

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GDP grows 1.2% in first quarter, returns to pre-pandemic level

GDP registered the third positive figure in the pandemic - Photo: Marcelo Seabra/Agência Pará The Gross Domestic Product - GDP grew 1.2% in the first quarter this year compared with the last quarter last year. This is the third positive figure, after retreating in the first (-2.2%) and second (-9.2%)...

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North and Northeast push unemployment to record figure in Brazil in Q1

Unemployment rate of the black population (18.6%) is higher than among whites (11.9%) - Photo: Jader Paes/Pará State Branch The record unemployment rate of 14.7% in the country resulted mainly from the contributions of the North Region, with a change from 12.4%, in the last quarter of 2020, to 14.8%,...

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Inflation preview: fuels push 2018 figure below expected target

The inflation target (IPCA-15), released today by the IBGE, changed by -0.16% in December, versus 0.19% in November. That was the lowest monthly result since July 2017 and the lowest rate for a month of December sincr the start of Plano Real, in. The cumulative rate in the year stayed at 3.86%, below...