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Number of people tested for Covid-19 rises to 25.7 million by October

Within a month, nearly 3.7 million people got tested for Covid - Photo: Christiano Antonucci/Governo MT The number of people who got tested for Covid-19 rose to 25.7 million in October. Of this total, about 5.7 million tested positive for the disease, which corresponds to 22.4% of the people who tested...

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Transportation recovers in 2017, only segment of services to grow in the year

Even dropping 2.8% in volume of the services sector in 2017, the segment of transportation recovered and grew 2.3% in the year, the first rise since 2014. The data came from the Monthly Survey of Services - PMS, released today by the IBGE, which also pointed out a positive change of 0.5% between November...

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IBGE defends the need for the 2021 Census budget

In an article published in O GLOBO (Brazilian newspaper) on Monday (March 22), the IBGE president, Ms. Susana Cordeiro Guerra, and the Director of Surveys, Mr. Eduardo Rios-Neto, defended the need to restore the 2021 Population Census's allocated money. Next, you will find the translated versions of...

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Clean energy impacts GDP of Northeastern municipalities

Wind energy makes energy matrix more sustainable - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency With the increasing participation of wind and solar energies, the Brazilian energy matrix has been becoming even more sustainable. According to the Brazilian Energy Balance 2018 of the Energy Research Office -...

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Automotive sector leads to first increase of industrial output in three years

Industrial output closed year 2017 with an increase of 2.5% against the 2016 figure. That is the first annual positive result since 2013, when there was a hike of 2.1%, the biggest increase since 2010, year of the record figure of 10.2% in the time series that started in 2002. There was a change of 2.8%...

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Industrial output grows 0.8% in October, third rise in a row

Industry had the best October since 2012, when it grew 1.5% - Photo: Marcelo Benedicto/IBGE News Agency According to the Monthly Industrial Survey, released today (4) by the IBGE, the output of the Brazilian industry grew 0.8% in October compared with the previous month, mainly leveraged by food products...

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Leveraged by women, consumption of alcohol increases among Brazilians in 2019

According to the PNS, number of women drinking at least once a week increased - Photo: Marcelo Camargo/Agência Brasil Brazilians are consuming more alcoholic beverages. Or rather, women: 17% of adult women stated to have drunk once or more per week in 2019. The index is 4.1 percentage points higher than...

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[Retratos] Frontiers of rural Amazon

The reality of the agricultural establishments located in the rural Amazon will be also portrayed in the Census of Agriculture 2017, carried out by the IBGE. Data collection began in October this year and should last up to February 2018. Yet, where does the Amazon begin and end? One way to look at this...

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Fuels and food products have an impact on October inflation preview

The inflation preview (IPCA-15), released today by the IBGE, rose from 0.09% in September to 0.58% in October. The groups Transportation (1.65%) and food products (0.44%) accounted for the acceleration of the IPCA-15, and accounted for about 70% of the monthly index. The cumulative index reached 3.83%...

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Geographic names identify places and let us know about their history

A landscape formed by several geographic features and the names used to identify them - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency Streets with uneven paving, made of stones*, and the colonial houses of the historical center of Paraty, a municipality in the south of Rio de Janeiro state, were the background...

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São Paulo leads decrease of industrial output in August

The decrease of 0.9% in the industrial output in São Paulo was the main influence towards the decrease of 0.3% in the sector between July and August this year, according to data from the National Survey of Industry – Regional Production (Regional PIM-PF), released today by the IBGE. Against August 2017,...

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Labor market challenges fuel debate on rights

One of the most important topics of the Federal Constitution which became 30 years old in 2018, the right to quality jobs is addressed in several parts of the Brazilian Charta. The relevance is such that one of the most discussed issues nowadays is the labor reform. Today the challenge is to keep the...

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Growth of industry pushed by Minas Gerais and Rio Grande do Sul in September

Mining and quarrying sector contributed to the 2,4% increase of industry in Minas Gerais, the highest figure since January this year- Photo: Pixabay Ten of the 15 areas surveyed by the IBGE recorded positive rates for industrial output and were above the national average of August, having recorded 0.3%...

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Industrial output drops after rising four months

The industrial output declined 0.8% in August over July, after registering a cumulative increase of 3.3% in the four immediately previous months. The sector of food products decreased 5.5% and contributed the most for the drop in the index, after three consecutive months of growth, followed by machinery...

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Inflation speeds up and stands at 0.43% in February

Food products exerted the highest pressure on the national index, but were down in comparison with January - Photo: Eduardo Peret/IBGE News Agency The Extended National Consumer Price Index (IPCA), which measures official inflation in the country, stood at 0.43% in February, above the 0.32% result of...

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Light, transportation and food to cause first deflation in 11 years

The IPCA, index that measures inflation for families, recorded -0.23% in June – the first negative result since June 2006 (-0.21%) and the second lowest rate since August 1998, when the index reached -0.51%. The IBGE coordinator of price indexes, Eulina Nunes, highlights that "what calls attention is...

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IBGE updates free web application manual for GPS users

The IBGE launches today (16) a new edition of the manual for the online Precise Point Positioning Service (PPP), a free web application that provides latitude logitude and height coordinates coordinates from any position on the planet. The web app generated by equipment that collect signals from satellite...

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Services setctor falls once again and records -1% in February

Volume of profissional, administrative and complementary services falls for the third month in a row - Photo: Pedro Ventura/Brasília Branch The volume of services fell 1.0% in February, in comparison with January, reaching the worst result in the sector since July 2018 (-3.1%), according to the Monthly...

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Six out of every ten enterprises experience negative effects of the Covid-19 pandemic

Pandemic affected 65.5% of the 1.2 million enterprises in the services segment - Photo: Tomaz Silva/Agência Brasil Among the 2.8 million enterprises in operation in the second half of June, 62.4% felt negative effects of the novel coronavirus pandemic on their activities. The impact was bigger in small-sized...

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Unemployment increases to 11.6% in quarter ended in February

ERRATA: An error was identified in the calculation of the quarterly and annual changes in the real average earnings and the real wage bill. The absolute values of the estimates have not been altered. The file with the summary tables was corrected and replaced, the changes were corrected in the release...