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Residents of Magé take part in test of Continuous PNAD July 17, 2017

The National Household Sample Survey (PNAD) questionnaire was tested last week with part of the population living in the rural area of Magé, a municipality...

Sir David Cox receives new prize in the 61st World Statistics Congress July 14, 2017

The first International Prize in Statistics will be granted to British statistician Sir David Cox by the International Statistical Institute (ISI),...

Tests for the 2017 Census of Agriculture will be held in more than four thousand municipalities July 14, 2017

This Sunday (16), applicants for rthe position of Municipal Census Agent, Supervising Census Agent and Enumerator will take selection tests for the...

Legal and advertisement services grow in May, but services sector remains stable July 13, 2017

According to the Monthly Survey of Services - PMS, recently released, legal and advertisement services were the main responsible for the growth of...

Extended retail sales interrupt sequence of 35 negative rates July 12, 2017

In the comparison with May 2016, the sales of the extended retail, which include the sectors of cars and construction material, grew 4.5%, interrupting...

[Video] Grain harvest surpasses 240 million metric tons July 11, 2017

The 2017 grain harvest is expected to hit 240.3 million metric tons in 2017, with an increase of 30.1% in relation to 2016 (184.7 million metric...

Industry of Ceará shows recovery based on oil, apparel and footwear July 11, 2017

After reaching the lowest level of output in this time series (-28.6%), in November 2016, the industry of Ceará state recovered in the moonths of...

Rise in corn output maintains record estimate for 2017 harvest July 11, 2017

The new estimate for the 2017 grain harvest is 240.3 million metric tons, surpassing by 30.1% the amount obtained in 2016 (184.7 million metric tons)....

Corn, star in June celebrations July 10, 2017

The traditional June celebrations extrapolate Catholic saint days and breaks into July – and even August! – with quadrilhas, fun and, of course,...

Light, transportation and food to cause first deflation in 11 years July 07, 2017

The IPCA, index that measures inflation for families, recorded -0.23% in June – the first negative result since June 2006 (-0.21%) and the second...

Prices of civil construction have the lowest rate for June since 2009 July 07, 2017

Computed by the IBGE, the National Index of Civil Construction - Sinapi rose 0.38% in June. Even standing 0.08 percentage points above the 0.30%...

Mission and interaction for #retratarobrasil July 06, 2017

Created with the objective of reinforcing the IBGE's institutional mission, hashtag #retratarobrasil has been used on Instagram more than 9.7 thousand...

In 2015, the Southeast lost more than one million salaried persons from companies and other organizations July 05, 2017

Between 2014 and 2015, the Southeast Region lost more than one million salaried workers in local branches of companies and other organizations listed...

IIndustry registers second positive rate, but stands 18.5% below record level July 04, 2017

With the 0.8% growth between April and May, the national industrial output registers the second biggest positive rate in a row and accumulates a...

Connected generations: POF shows changes in consumption July 03, 2017

Cléa Rubinstein, 71, uses technology as easily as her grandchildren Gabriel (4) and Dora (10), chatting on Whatsapp with one daughter that lives...

São Paulo is the city with more links of public transportation June 30, 2017

There are 65,939 links between a Brazilian city and other cities either in Brazil or abroad, through bus, ship, boat, van or any other kind of public...

Unemployment stable, but workers without a formal contract on the rise June 29, 2017

The unemployment rate (13.3%) held steady in the March-April-May quarter over the previous one (Dec-Jan-Feb: 13.2%), according to the results of...

Getting to know the territory in its connections June 29, 2017

Construction of geographic knowledge aimed at recent transformations in the dynamics of municipalities: the new Regional Division of Brazil, released...

Investments in industry fall 13% in 2015 June 28, 2017

Reduction of 8,454 in total number of mining and manufacturing industries, drop of 642,138 workplaces and nominal decrease of 13% in investments...

Brazil still has no sustainable cities June 28, 2017

Along the national territory, the analysis of the condition of the housing units and areas where they are located points out that Brazil is far from...

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