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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Cities as classrooms

Due either to the real estate speculation or to the urban design of the public administration, the pressure of the urban sprawl affects some schools, particularly in terms of the practice of sports, which requires a wide and specific area. This issue takes managers and teachers to look for options adapted...

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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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“Green GDP”: Brazilan environmental heritage to be calculated by IBGE

The IBGE, which is responsible for calculating the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), will also release the Green Gross Internal Product (GGDP), known as the "Green GDP". The bill, which had been being discussed by the Legislative Power since 2015, was sanctioned this week by President Michel Temer. It is...

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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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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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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...

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Lenses.doc starts with multimedia production and celebrates 40 years of the IPCA

Multimedia news report, with an integrated content and navigation by means of several Internet resources. Lenses.doc is the audiovisual language that now, in January 2020, finds its place in the IBGE News Agency. The channel, aimed at a deeper investigation of topics related to the IBGE’s work, was named...

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Services sector closes February at -0.4% and accumulates second drop in a row

Air transportation of passengers led to sector's decrease - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency Having grown 0.8% in December, the service sector fell for the second consecutive time in February (-0.4%), in comparison with January. The result offset the gain at the end of 2018, since January had...

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International market makes basic metals drive up prices

Leveraged by the international market, Basic Metals was the activity that mostly contributed to the 0.41% increase in the Producer Price Index (PPI) in February, compared to January, as released by the IBGE this Thursday. In relation to the same month of 2017, the change was 5.23%, while the cumulative...

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Union membership down to 11.2% in 2019, a drop led by the public sector

More than 50% decrease in union membership in 2019 took place in public administration - Photo: Tony Winston/Agência Brasil Workers affiliated to unions were 1.2% of the employed population in the country, amounting to 10.6 million persons in 2019, with a decrease by 951 thousand against 2018, when the...

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IPP accelerates, pressed by petroleum derivatives and biofuels

The Producer Price Index - IPP, which measures the price changes in industry free from taxes and freight, accelerated from 0.29% in August to 1.50% in September. This is the highest figure in the survey since October 2015 (1.77%). Released today by the IBGE, the IPP registered a cumulative index of 0.48%...

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Slaughter of hogs and pigs increases 2.4%, hits record in 2018

Nearly two thirds of the slaughter of hogs and pigs took place in the South - Photo: Pedro Vidal/IBGE News Agency The amount of hogs and pigs slaughtered in Brazil hit 44.2 million last year, a rise of 2.4% in relation to 2017 and the highest figure in the time series started in 1997. The most significant...

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Leveraged by agriculture, GDP rises 1.0% in 2017 and reaches R$6.6 trillion

The Gross Domestic Product - GDP rose 1.0% in 2017, reaching R$6.6 trillion. Released today by the IBGE, the data point out that this result was due to the 0.9% expansion of the value added at basic prices – comprising the activities of agriculture, industry and services – and to the 1.3% rise in volume...