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Persons with disabilities: adapting spaces and attitudes
On a visit to the Forest Reservation of Grajaú, Renata Glasner realized she would not be able to see all of the place due to the lack of wheelchair ramps. On another occasion, she could not have a single drink in a party since there were no adapted bathrooms. Renata is a wheelchair user and now follows...
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Supermarkets contribute to trade's 6.4% growth in September
Leveraged by the 6% advance in the sector of supermarkets, the retail sales closed the month of September with a 6.4% growth over September 2016. Considering the extended retail trade, which includes the sales of the car sector, the growth was even bigger (9.3%). That's what says the Monthly Survey of...
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Curitibanos (SC) and other 51 cities participating in the internet collection test
The IBGE will carry out the first online collection test for the 2020 Population Census starting next Monday (21). The test will take place in 52 municipalities of the country, spread along the five major regions, including part of the households of all capitals and cities with more than 500 thousand...
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Water sets the pace of agriculture in Amazonas
In Careiro da Várzea (AM), gardens like this stay submerged due to floods - Photo: Adjalma Jaques In a village full of farmers located in the Terra Nova district, municipality of Careiro da Várzea (AM), people live willing to face difficulties to crop and harvest. They live in a very fertile region,...
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Trade is back to growth in May, recording the biggest high in sales in the last 20 years
Adapatation to new strategies was a contributing factor to the retail growth - Photo: Tânia Rego/Agência Brasilia The volume of retail sales grew 13.9% in May, the highest growth since the beginning of the time series, in January 2000. The increase was not enough for a recovery from the March-April loss,...
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In August, furniture and household appliances keep retail on the rise
The volume of sales of the retail trade increased 3.6% in August, in comparison with the same month of 2016. It is the biggest monthly change since this recovery started, in April. The highlights were furniture and household appliances, whose sales grew 16.5% in relation to August last year. In the cumulative...
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Mining and quarrying industries and petroleum refining drive high of 0.43% in producer prices
Pretoleum refining products had biggest high since September - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News agency Industry prices increases 0.43% in February, driven by mining and quarrying and petroleum refining. The high of 7.97% in the mining and quarrying industries offset last month's decrease of -7.59% and...
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61.7% of the Brazilian population were overweight, and 26.8%, obese - Photo: Charles de Moura / PMSJC The percentage of obese adults in Brazil more than doubled in 17 years, with a change from 12.2%, between 2002 and 2003, to 26.8%, in 2019. In the same period, the proportion of overweight adults changed...
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Unemployment remains stable, but informality increases in May
The number of employees in the private sector without a formal contract increased by 2.9% in the quarter from March to May 2018 compared to the previous quarter. In absolute numbers, the result represents more than 307 thousand people in jobs without several labor rights guarantees. Compared to the same...
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Fuels boost forecast of August's inflation
The Extended National Consumer Price Index 15 (IPCA-15) had a change of 0.35% in August, the second biggest result of the year, just behind February (0.54%), and well above July (-0.18%). The sector of Transportation recorded the highest increase, advancing 1.35% and 0.24 percentage points of influence...
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Retail sales grow 3.4% and reach a record in August
Retail trade of fabric, wearing apparel and footwear led rising results in August, with 30.5% - Photo: Cláudio Vieira/PMSJC Retail trade grew 3.4% in August, against the July figure, the fourth month straight increase, after decreases due to the pandemic in March and April. With this result, the sector...
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Number of persons away from work due to the pandemic falls to 6.2 million in the 3rd week of July
Most of those away from work returned to the same positions they held before the pandemic - Photo: Charles de Moura/PMSJC The number of persons temporarily away from work due to social distancing fell for the eighth week in a row, with a change from 7 million in the second week of July to 6.2 million...
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Drop in Food and Lodging contributes to low August in services
The only activity down in August in the comparison with July, the sector of services rendered to families (-4.8%) was mainly to blame for the 1% drop registered in the Monthly Survey of Services (PMS), released today by the IBGE. The segment had been having a three-consecutive-month period of highs,...
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GDP up 1.1% closing 2019 at R$7.3 trillion
Household consumption was the greatest contribution to GDP growth in 2019 - photo: Eduardo Peret/IBGE News Agency The Gross Domestic Product (GDP), released today by the IBGE, closed 2019 with an increase of 1.1%, totaling R$7.257 trillion. This is the third positive result, after the increases of 1.3%...
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Eight in every ten youngsters who never attended school were unemployed in Brazil in 2019
The earlier young people drop out of school, the greater are their chances of being unemployed - Photo: Arquivo Agência Brasil About 82.3% of young people aged 15 to 29 who never attended school were unemployed in 2019, according to the Summary of Social Indicators, released today (12) by the IBGE. The...
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Industry prices fall 1.46% in December, but 2018 boosts the series
The decline of 1.46% in industry prices in December was not enough to avoid the 9.76% increase in the cumulative index in 2018, which was the highest in the time series started in 2014. The data are from the Producer Price Index (IPP), published today by the IBGE, which measures the price changes of...
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On the eve of the 2020 Census, have a sneak peak of the news that marked the year at the IBGE
Throughout 2019, the IBGE News Agency has disclosed information produced by the IBGE in order to accomplish its mission of portraying Brazil for the exercise of citizenship. The main results of studies and surveys, in the fields of geography and statistics, were highlighted in news and articles, complemented with...
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Electricity bill doubles inflation in May
Influenced by the increase in the electricity bills, the May inflation reached 0.31%, more than doubling the rate of April (0.14%). Bereft of the discount applied in April, which offset the improper charge of the Charge of Reserve Power - EER, the electricity bills rose 8.98% in May, accounting for 0.29...
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Previous inflation stays at 0.30%, lowest rate for January since 1995
The previous inflation stayed at 0.30% in January, the lowest rate for January since the implementation of the Real Plan in July 1994, whereas the cumulative index over the last 12 months stood at 3.77%. The rate was 0.39% compared with January 2018. The information is from the Extended National Consumer...
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Employment remains stable, but underutilized population is the biggest since 2012
The survey registered records of underutilized, underemployed and discouraged workers - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News agencies Unemployment remained stable and reached 13 million persons in the quarter ended in May, but the underutilized contingent was the largest since 2012, reaching 28.5 million...