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Industry up in 12 locations in August and six surpass pre-pandemic levels

Industry in Pará grows 5.5% influenced by mining and quarrying - Photo: Agência Vale The national industrial sector increased in 12 of the 15 locations analyzed by the Monthly Survey of Industry (PIM-Regional), from July to August. The result, released today (8) by the IBGE, shows that six areas have...

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Producer prices register third rise in a row, increase 1.27% in April

Petroleum products influence rise of industrial pricesPhoto: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency Compared with March, the industry registered an inflation of 1.27% in April, influenced by the rise in the prices of petroleum products, food and products from the mining and metal sector. This is the third...

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After a leveled-off result in December, services sector grows 0.6% in January

Road transportation of passengers stood out in January - Photo: Marcelo Camargo/Agência Brasil The sector of services grew 0.6% in January, after a leveled-off result in December. That is the eighth non-negative result in a row, with a cumulative increase of 19.6% in the period. Volume of services is...

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Inflation preview rises to 0.14%, yet index is lowest for November in 21 years

Rise in fuels influenced slight acceleration of IPCA-15 in November - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency Preview of the official inflation in Brazil, the Extended National Consumer Price Index 15 - IPCA-15 increased to 0.14% in November, after registering 0.09% in the previous month. This was the...

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Industrial production drops in 10 of the 15 places surveyed in June

Sector of motor vehicles influenced decrease in Paraná and in São Paulo - Photo: State Government of São Paulo Industrial production shrank in ten of the 15 anaysed places by the Monthly Survey of Industry (PIM - Regional), from May to June. The main drops were in Paraná (-5.7%) and in Pará (-5.7%)....

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5.9 milion did not follow social distancing measures in the first week of September

More people on the streets with relaxation of social distancing rules - Photo: Mário Oliveira/SEMCOM Manaus The number of people who did not take any restrictive measures to avoid being infected by the novel coronavirus rose to 5.9 million in the first week of September, reaching the highest level since...

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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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Services increase by 1.1% in July and hit five-year peak

The hotel segment led the result of services rendered to families, which are still below pre-pandemic levels - Photo: Brisa Gil Volume of services increased by 1.1% from June to July, fourth positive rate in a row, with a cumulative 5.8% in the period. As a result, the sector is 3.9% above the pre-pandemic...

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Even with the rise in electricity, inflation is the lowest for July in five years

Changed in the tariff flag contributed to the rise in electricity in July - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency The rise of 4.48% in the electricity fare in July pressed the inflation, which changed from 0.01% in June to 0.19% in July, according to the Extended National Consumer Price Index - IPCA,...

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A matter of gender: mental health indicators are worse for girls

In 2019, 29.6% of school girls felt that life was not worth living. Photo: Kat Jayne/Pexels Girls, most of the time, have been feeling sadder than boys. And also more worried or feeling that nobody cares for them, or yet that life is not worth living. It is what the National Survey of School Health (PeNSE)...

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Recording its fifth annual decrease, construction industry employs 1,9 million workers in 2018

Despite the retraction, reduction of workforce is the lowest since 2014 - Photo: Simone Mello/IBGE News Agency The number of persons employed in construction industry fell 1.7% in 2018 versus the previous year, with a reduction by 31,5 thousand work positions. Despite the retraction, that was the lowest...

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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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Volume of services retreats 0.2% in August, fifth drop in year

Services sector is 1.5% below the level of December 2018 - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency Volume of services retreated 0.2% in August compared with July, the fifth negative figure of the sector in 2019. The drop was of 1.4% in relation to August 2018, according to the Monthly Survey of Services,...

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Gasoline and electricity take inflation to 0.36%, the highest one for July since 2016

Fuel prices increased 3.12% and had an impact on July's inflationHelena Pontes/IBGE News Agency The influence of July stood at 0.36%, influenced, mainly, by gasoline and electricity prices, the two items of greatest impact and which underwent increases. This was the lowest figure for July since 2016,...

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Unemployment falls to 11.2% in November with job positions opened in trade

In November, 378 thousand persons began to work with a formal contract - Photo: Adriade Souza/ Olinda City Hall The temporary positions opened in the trade to face the holiday season contributed to the drop of 0.7 percentage points in the unemployment rate, which stayed at 11.2% in the quarter ended...

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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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Environmental Information Database is updated with new functionalities

The IBGE has released today (28), update mapping in Geology, Geomorphology, Pedology and vegetation all over brazil at Institute's platform for visualization and access to environmental geospatial to information, the Environmental Information Database (BDiA). Available since December 2018, the tool now...

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Unemployment average decreases to 11.9% in 2019; informal work reaches its peak in 4 years

Informal work is a reality for 41.1% of the employed population, on average, in 2019 - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency The average unemployment rate fell from 12.3% in 2018 to 11.9% in2019, the second decrease in a row, according to the Continuous National Household Sample Survey (Continuous...

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First estimate forecasts record harvest of grains in 2021

First forecast shows that harvest will break a record in 2021, leveraged by soybeans and corn - Photo: Abiove The Brazilian harvest of grains, cereals and legumes should add up to 253.2 million tonnes in 2021, in case the first projection of the Systematic Survey of Agricultural Production - LSPA, released...