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Household surveys help to tell stories of Brazilian families October 21, 2019

Daniele Miranda, her husband Paulo José da Silva and four children live for nine years in a house...

Census of Agriculture helps mapping out country's ways October 21, 2019

In 2017, the Census of Agriculture visited more than 5 million establishments and involved, besides hundreds...

2017 Census of Agriculture: tracing enumerators' paths October 21, 2019

The IBGE disclosures today the paths traveled by the enumerators during the 2017 Census of...

Six out of every ten enterprises born in 2012 closed their doors in a five-year time October 17, 2019

Among the enterprises born in 2012, nearly 40% of 597.2 thousand were still active in 2017. This...

IBGE launches Technical Manual of Access and Use of Geospatial Data October 17, 2019

Aiming at contributing to technical and scientific groups of several areas that work with...

2017 Demography of Enterprises and Entreperneurship: survival rate at 84.8% October 17, 2019

The survival rate of active entreprises in Brazil was of 84.8% in 2017, which represents 3.8...

Earnings from labor of richest 1% is 34 times higher than the half poorest October 16, 2019

The monthly average earnings of the richest 1% population was nearly 34 times higher than the half...

Continuous PNAD 2018: 10% of population concentrate 43.1% of Brazilian wage bill October 16, 2019

The Gini Index of the per capita household real monthly average earnings, which varies from zero...

Get to know the facts behind each population census October 14, 2019

The 2020 Census will be the 13th in Brazil but the ninth conducted by the IBGE. The size of the...

New consumption habits change inflation calculation from January 2020 on October 11, 2019

Products and services used to measure the official inflation in the country will be updated to...

Transportation becomes the main IPCA component as of 2020 October 11, 2019

In January 2020, the transportation group will become the major component of the Extended National Consumer...

Volume of services retreats 0.2% in August, fifth drop in year October 11, 2019

Volume of services retreated 0.2% in August compared with July, the fifth negative figure of the...

Services sector changes –0.2% in August October 11, 2019

In the seasonally-adjusted series, the services sector changed -0.2% in August 2019 in relation to...

Leveraged by supermarket sales, trade stays at 0.1%, records third positive month October 10, 2019

Supermarkets and hypermarkets prevented negative retail sales in August. Volume of trade was 0.1%...

September estimates indicate record grain crop for 2019 October 10, 2019

In 2019, the country will reap 240.7 million metric tons of grain, according to the Systematic...

Retail sales change 0.1% in August October 10, 2019

In the seasonally-adjusted series, the retail sales changed 0.1% in August 2019 compared with the...

In September, IBGE forecasts high of 6.3% in 2019 crops October 10, 2019

The estimate for September 2019 for the national crop of cereals, legumes and oilseeds points to a...

IBGE portal has new homepage to facilitate data access October 09, 2019

Whoever accesses the IBGE portal is now able to find more quickly the major short-term indicators...

Labor force drives high of 0.37% in the civil construction costs in September October 09, 2019

Released today by the IBGE, the National Index of Civil Construction - Sinapi rose 0.37% in...

IPCA registers deflation of 0.04%, lowest figure for September since 1998 October 09, 2019

Brazil registered a deflation of 0.04% in September, the lowest figure for this month since 1998,...

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