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Turning analog signal off, new step in transition to digital October 24, 2017

After broadcasting from the satellites to our TV screens for six decades, the analog signal has...

Rural Amazon: peculiarities of rural areas in forests October 23, 2017

Maybe one of the less known forms that rural areas are present in the Brazilian territory is in...

Bottled gas rockets up inflation forecast for October October 20, 2017

With three increases in a row, the price of bottled gas (5.72% up) was one of the main responsible of the high...

IPCA-15 reaches 0.34% in October October 20, 2017

The Extended National Consumer Price Index 15 (IPCA-15) was of 0.34% in October and stood 0.23...

Website allows identity checking of IBGE enumerators October 19, 2017

It is quite common for people to feel uncomfortable when visited by enumerators at their home or...

“Green GDP”: Brazilan environmental heritage to be calculated by IBGE October 18, 2017

The IBGE, which is responsible for calculating the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), will also release the...

Women look for formal economy more than men in Brazil October 18, 2017

Women show a higher proportion of enterprises registered in the National Directory of Legal...

Percentage of persons working in large-sized enterprises falls in 2016 October 18, 2017

Among 73.7 million employers, self-employed workers and employees – excluding those from the...

IBGE begins to release thematic modules of Continuous PNAD October 17, 2017

The IBGE releases tomorrow, October 18, the Additional Characteristics of the Labor Market...

Drop in Food and Lodging contributes to low August in services October 17, 2017

The only activity down in August in the comparison with July, the sector of services rendered to...

Services Sector down 1.0% in August October 17, 2017

In August, the Services sector decreased 1.0% in relation to July, after the drop of 0.8% in July...

SDG #5: Reach gender equality, empower all women and girls October 16, 2017

The fourth edition of the Retratos Magazine launches a series of interviews with IBGE technicians...

Pink October encourages breast cancer prevention October 13, 2017

When you see Valéria Amaral smiling in her office, you can hardly tell that she's faced cancer...

In August, furniture and household appliances keep retail on the rise October 11, 2017

The volume of sales of the retail trade increased 3.6% in August, in comparison with the same...

Retail sales fall 0.5% between July and August October 11, 2017

In August 2017, the volume of sales of the national retail trade contracted 0.5%, whereas the...

[video] Census of Agriculture closes first collection week October 10, 2017

In the first collection week of the Census of Agriculture, more than forty thousand questionnaires were answered...

Industry in São Paulo drops 1.4% in August after growing for 4 months October 10, 2017

According to the Monthly Survey of Industry - Regional - PIM-PF Regional released today by the...

Soybean, corn and rice crops make up more than 90% of the 2017 output October 10, 2017

Soybean, corn and rice crops are expected to amount to more than 226 million metric tons, making...

Industry drops in 6 of 14 places surveyed in August October 10, 2017

While the national industrial output retreated 0.8% in the seasonally-adjusted series, six out of...

In September, grain harvest expected to surpass 2016 figure by 30.3% October 10, 2017

Against the August figure (240.9 miillion metric tons), there was increase of 1.1 million metric...

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