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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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Food, electricity and fuel impact inflation forecast in June

The inflation forecast (IPCA-15) in June, released today by the IBGE, reached 1.11%, the highest change for the month since 1995, when the index registered 2.35%. The groups Food and beverages (1.57%), Housing (1.74%) and Transportation (1.95%) were the main influences on the result. The cumulative index in...

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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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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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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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International markets have an impact on prices of industry in June

Iron ore, crude petroleum oil and soybean bran are among the main industrial products contributing to reduce the Producer Price Index (IIP) of June (-0.21%) against the May figure. The indicator measures the price evolution of products 'at the factory gate', without taxes and freight. “The three items,...

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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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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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After rise, Services sector halts upturn in January

The services sector fell once again (-1.9%) in January after rising in December (1.5%), according to the information from the Monthly Survey of Services - PMS, released today by the IBGE. This drop in the comparison with the last month of 2017 can also be noticed in relation to January last year (-1.3%)....

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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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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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Volume of services remains stable in November for second month in a row

Even with the increase of four out of the five activities surveyed, the services sector remained stable (0.0%) in the comparison between November and October, completing the second consecutive month in this situation. The data are from the Monthly Survey of Services - PMS, released today by the IBGE,...

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Fathers share responsibilities in shared custody of children

Every month Lara spends 15 days with her father, psychologist Tiago Ferreira - Photo: Rita Martins/IBGE News Agency Under the careful view of her father, psychologist Tiago Ferreira, little Lara Kali, 7 years old, hurry up to tie the laces of her skates to enjoy the sunny holiday in a park in Salvador....

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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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"Coffee and milk" in Minas Gerais shows power of Census of Agriculture

The IBGE will visit nearly 550 thousand agricultural establishments in Minas Gerais up to February 2018. Of them, more than 368 thousand (66%) already received an enumerator of the Census of Agriculture 2017 to collect data to update the picture of the rural Brazil. Stories of dedication and love to...

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São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro have reduced contribution to GDP over last 15 years

The contribution of São Paulo (SP) and Rio de Janeiro (RJ) to the national Gross Domestic Product (GDP)fell from 19% to 16.2%, between 2002 and 2016. Nevertheless, both capitals still keep the first and second positions, respectively, in the natonal GDP rankin, as reported by GDP of Municipalities, released...

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More than 25 million youngsters were not studying in 2017

More than half (25.2 million) of the 48.5 million youngsters aged 15 to 29 in Brazil had not finished high school and were not attending school, courses, university of any other regular education institution in 2017. That is an increase by 330 thousand persons in comparison with the 2016 figure. Thesa...

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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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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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Informality and trade contribute to decrease unemployment

Besides seasonal trade, informal labor maintained the upward trend registered in the last months and contributed to the drop of unemployment in the quarter ended in November. According to the Continuous National Household Sample Survey: Monthly Edition - Continuous PNAD, released this Friday by the IBGE,...