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River and satellite navigation put 2010 Census interviews on the way to IBGE July 30, 2010

The 8,514,876.599 km² of the Brazilian territory constitute an additional challenge in the 2010 Census... The 8,514,876.599 km² of the Brazilian...

In June, the unemployment rate was 7% July 22, 2010

The unemployment rate decreased by 0.5 percentage points in relation to May and 1.1 percentage points in relation to June of 2009... ...

Census 2010: enumerators start final training phase July 19, 2010

IBGE starts today the attended training program for the 209,826 applicants approved for the second selection phase of Census 2010 enumerators......

In 2008, birth registration coverage increased in the country June 02, 2010

Decreased under-registration, which reached 8.9%, the lowest level in the series, allows utilization of birth data in direct calculations of...

Unemployment rate was 7.3% in April May 27, 2010

Also in the analysis by area, the unemployed population did not present any monthly change in any of the areas analyzed, but, when compared to April...

Companies were responsible for 70.3% of the formal jobs and paid 62.1% of the salaries in 2008 May 26, 2010

Big companies prevailed in terms of employment and wages Out of 4.1 million active companies, 3.6 million (88.7%) had between 0 and 9 employed...

A total 98.6% of the municipalities in Brazil declared to have social assistance services, but only a few supervise them May 21, 2010

All but four municipalities in the country (99.9%) declared to have, in 2009, an organizational structure prepared to deal with social assistance...

Munic 2009: just 7.1% of the municipalities have police stations for women defense May 13, 2010

Ten years after its first edition, the Survey of Basic Municipal Information (Munic) collected, again, information based on questionnaires answered...

IBGE starts countdown for the 2010 Census May 05, 2010

The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) has started a three-month countdown for the 2010 Census data collection... ...

From 2003 to 2008, the percentage of women who had already undergone a mammogram increased from 42.5% to 54.8% March 31, 2010

The PNAD 2008 Health Supplement, conducted by IBGE in partnership with the Ministry of Health, shows that 77.3% of the population evaluated their...

In February, unemployment was 7.4% March 25, 2010

The unemployment rate was stable in relation to January (7.2%) and decreased 1.1 percentage point in relation to February 2009 (8.5%). The unemployed...

IBGE releases information about women in the job market March 08, 2010

The participation of women in the job market, their age and educational profile, the number of women in the public sector, their working hours...

In January, unemployment was 7.2% February 25, 2010

The employed population (21.6 million people), in the aggregate of the six investigated metropolitan areas, decreased (-1.0%) in relation to December,...

In December, unemployment was 6.8% January 28, 2010

In December 2009, the unemployment rate was the same as that of December 2008 (6.8%, the smallest in the series) and decreased 0.6 percentage...

In seven years, annual figure for average unemployed population has fallen by 28.2% January 28, 2010

Participation of women in the employed population had continuous increase There was steady increase of the participation of women in the...

IBGE reveals habits, customs and risks faced by students of Brazilian capitals December 18, 2009

The National Survey of School Health (Pense) presents information on students’ health conditions, in a previously unseen survey on the theme at IBGE...

In November, unemployment was 7.4% December 18, 2009

The unemployment rate of 7.4% in November, estimated by the Monthly Employment Survey (PME)1, presented statistically significant change neither...

From 2005 to 2008, access to Internet increased 75.3% and over half of Brazilians managed to have a cell phone December 11, 2009

In three years, the percentage of persons aged 10 years and over who accessed the Internet at least once from a computer increased 75.3%, having...

In 2008, life expectancy of Brazilians reached 72.86 years of age December 01, 2009

Life expectancy at birth of the population, both sexes, in Brazil changed from 69.66 years (69 years, 7 months and 29 days) to 72.86 years (72...

17.2% of Brazilians smoke; 52.1% of them think of quitting November 27, 2009

Around 24.6 million Brazilians aged 15 and over smoked tobacco products in 2008, what corresponded to 17.2% of the population in this age group....

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