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IBGE releases a Geosciences Manual for the 1:250000 Cartographic Base of Brazil September 13, 2011

IBGE releases today the Geosciences Technical Manual utilized in the elaboration of the 1:250000...

Retail sales grew by 1.4% and nominal revenue was 1.6% higher in July September 13, 2011

In July, retail trade in the country recorded increase of 1.4% in volume of sales over the...

Industrial employment changes -0.1% in July September 09, 2011

The industrial employment recorded a negative change (0.1%) in July of 2011 against the...

IBGE: harvest estimate in August surpasses 2010 figure by 6.3% September 09, 2011

August estimate compared to the 2010 output Among the 25 products selected, 14 recorded positive...

National Index of Civil Construction changes by 0.14% in August September 06, 2011

The National Index of Civil Construction (Sinapi), estimated by IBGE in partnership with CAIXA,...

IPCA of August stays at 0.37% September 06, 2011

The Extended National Consumer Price Index - IPCA – rose again in August and recorded a change of...

GDP grows by 0.8% over Q1 and reaches R$ 1.02 trillion September 02, 2011

GDP (Gross Domestic Product) at market prices grew by 0.8% in the comparison between the first and the...

IBGE releases municipal population estimates in 2011 August 31, 2011

IBGE releases today, August 31, 2011, estimated figures for resident population in each of the...

Industrial output increased by 0.5% in July August 31, 2011

In July 2011, the industrial output increased by 0.5% over that of the previous month (seasonally...

PAS 2009: Services sector generated revenue of R$ 745.4 billion in 2009 August 26, 2011

In 2009, the 918.2 thousand non-financial services companies existing in the country generated...

Unemployment rate was 6.0% in July August 25, 2011

Considering the classification by employment type, the biggest increase in average real income...

IPCA-15 of August is 0.27% August 19, 2011

Among the indexes by area, the highest one was that of Brasília (0.44%), mainly due to the rise of...

IBGE awarded in international event August 17, 2011

IBGE has just been chosen as the winner of the Geospatial Excellence Award, for its project...

IBGE participates in international forum on geospatial information August 16, 2011

Eduardo Pereira Nunes, President of IBGE will speak tomorrow, (08/17/2011), at 9 a.m., in the...

Retail sales record changes of 0.2% in June and of 7.3% accumulated in the first semester August 11, 2011

In June, retail trade in the country changed by 0.2% in terms of volume of sales and by 0.6% in...

IPCA of July stays at 0.16% August 09, 2011

The Extended National Consumer Price Index - IPCA – of July recorded a result of 0.16%, quite near...

In July, IBGE estimates a harvest of grains 6.2% higher than the record harvest of 2010 August 09, 2011

The national harvest of cereal, legumes and oilseeds (cotton seed, peanut, rice, beans, castor...

Brazilian agriculture industry decreases by 3.3% in the 1st semester of 2011 August 09, 2011

In the first semester of 2011, the Brazilian agriculture industry decreased by 3.3%, a result...

Industrial output drops in 9 of the 14 places in June August 09, 2011

Nine of the fourteen places surveyed recorded negative rates between May and June, discounted the...

National Index of Civil Construction changes by 0.55% in July August 05, 2011