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Inflation preview: 0.34% is the lowest rate for a month of February in the Plano Real era

Adjustment in school fees were relevant in the 3.52% increase in Education - Photo: Pedro Girão The inflation preview is 0.34% in February, after recording 0.30% in January. The result was the same as in February 2000, and recorded the lowest rate in the series since the start of Plano Real, in July...

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Sales increase 0.3% in March and trade ends first quarter on the rise

Sales of pharmaceuticals, medical articles and cosmetics pushed the March trade upwards - Photo: Luiz Agner/IBGE Retail sales volume increased 0.3% in March, im comparison with the previous month, after stability of trade in February. As a result, the first quarter closed the year on the rise, with 0.3%...

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Drop of 16.8% in retail sales in April is the sharpest in 20 years

Isolation measures contributed to the remarkable decrease in sales in April - Rovena Rosal/Agência Brasil Retail sales fell 16.8% in April, compared to the previous month, reflecting the effects of social isolation to control the Covid-19 pandemic. It is the worst result since the beginning of the time...

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Seminar recalls 40 years of IPCA, discusses future of inflation measurement

Francisco de Assis Melo, Cimar Azeredo and Gustavo Vitti discuss, over the Internet, the evolution of inflation measurement. "The IBGE is the house of figures, the house of precision, and so it should be." The brief description – albeit true – of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics´mission...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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“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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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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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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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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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...