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IBGE releases results of Population Count 2007 October 05, 2007

IBGE releases the results of Population Count 2007 and Brazil’s Federal Register publishes a list with the 26 states and the Federal District, and...

IBGE presents social indicators of the last ten years September 28, 2007

The Summary of Social Indicators 2007 –An Analysis of Life Conditions of the Brazilian Population – shows that the gross rates of school attendance...

Unemployment rate remained at 9.5% in August September 20, 2007

There was stability in relation to July (9.5%) and decrease compared to August last year (10.6%). The employed population (21.0% million) increased...

IBGE survey investigates culture in Brazilian municipalities September 17, 2007

Between 1999 and 2006, the number of municipalities which have a local Internet provider increased by 178%, and the number of municipalities which...

PNAD 2006: workers who earn less recover the income they had ten years ago September 14, 2007

From 2005 to 2006, the workers of Brazil had gain of 7.2% in their income, gaining on the average, R$ 883 per month. Despite that the growth was...

IBGE releases preliminary results of Population Count 2007 August 31, 2007

IBGE has released today, at 10 am, the first results of Population Count 2007. At the same time Brazil’s Federal Register (Diário Oficial da União)...

Richest 10% of the population spends ten times more than the poorest 40% August 29, 2007

The main declared expenses of Brazilian families are related to housing, food acquisition and commuting, regardless of the number of persons in the...

IBGE invests in technology and training to celebrate the 40th anniversary of PNAD August 24, 2007

The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics celebrates, in 2007, the 4oth anniversary of The National Household Sample Survey (PNAD) by...

Unemployment rate in July was 9.5% August 23, 2007

The unemployment rate shows no statistically significant change in relation to June (9.7%), but it has fallen by 1.2 percentage points in relation...

More schooled man has more participation in household activities August 17, 2007

IBGE shows that the growing participation of women in the labor market did not reduce the daily hours of work with household activities. On the contrary,...

Unemployment rate of June was 9.7% July 26, 2007

It was the first decrease in the indicator this year (0.4 percentage points in relation to May), after three months of stability in 10.1%. In relation...

Censuses 2007 : indian villages visited this week July 17, 2007

Throughout this week, IBGE census takers will be visiting native indian communities in Parati (RJ), on the Bananal Island (TO) and in São Felix do...

Unemployment rate remains at 10.1% in May June 21, 2007

Unemployment rate has remained the same for three months. It is also stable in comparison with May 2006 (10.2%). Unemployment has kept the...

Censuses: 40 million persons and 1,7 million establishments visited so far June 19, 2007

This is the result of two months of data collection activities of the Census of Agriculture and of the Population Count, which cover about 5,7 million...

Study shows 60 years of social changes in Brazil May 25, 2007

Between the Censuses of 1940 and of 2000, the Brazilian population increased four times. The rural Brazil became urban (the urbanization rate...

Unemployment rate was 10.1% in April May 24, 2007

The April rate was the same as in March (10.1%) and did not have any statistically significant change in relation to April 2006 (10.4%). The...

In March, unemployment rate was 10.1% April 26, 2007

Indicator did not have a significant statistical change in relation to February (9.9%) and was similar to the one of March 2006 (10.4%). The average...

Unemployment rate was 9.9% in February March 29, 2007

The industrial regional production closed the year of 2006 with growth in 11 among 14 investigated areas by the Monthly Survey of Mining and Manufacturing...

IBGE survey shows there are 32,1 million Internet users in the country March 23, 2007

Twenty-one percent (32,1 million) of the population 10 years of age or over have accessed the Internet at least once somewhere – in their household...

Unemployment rate was 9.3% in January February 22, 2007

The unemployment rate registered by the Monthly Employment Survey of IBGE, in the six main metropolitan areas of the country (Recife, Salvador, Belo...

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