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Black and brown workers earn 50% of the income of white ones May 13, 2009

Data grouped by color or race, in the March 2009 edition of the Monthly Employment Survey (PME), show significant unevenness between self-declared...

In March, unemployment rate was 9.0% April 24, 2009

The unemployment rate in March was 0.5percentage points above the figure in February (8.5%) and remained stable compared to March 2008 (8.6%)....

Unemployment rate was 8.5% in February March 26, 2009

The unemployment rate of February was 0.3 percentage points above the figure in January (8.2%) and 0.2 percentage points below the rate of...

IBGE conducts previously unseen survey about students’ health conditions March 23, 2009

Do Brazilian students have health eating habits? Do they exercise? Smoke? Sinxce when? Have they ever taken part in any episodes of violence?...

In January, unemployment was 8.2% February 20, 2009

The unemployment rate increased by 1.4 percentage points from December 2008 to January 2009 reaching 8.2% in the beginning of this year. In the...

In December 2008, unemployment rate was 6.8% January 22, 2009

The unemployment rate has reached its lowest figure in the historical series which started in March 2002, falling by 0.8 percentage points in relation...

From 2003 to 2008, unemployed population fell by 29.4% January 22, 2009

In the same period, the monthly average employed population increased by 16.1% and the total number of women working increased by 20.6%. On the...

In November, unemployment rate was 7.6% December 19, 2008

In comparison with October (7.5%), the unemployment rate remained stable, whereas in relation to November 2007 (8.2%), it decreased by 0.6 percentage...

IBGE releases Map of Poverty and Inequality 2003 December 18, 2008

A new tool, released as a DVD, allows the identification at municipal level of poverty incidence, the average distance of the poor population from...

In 2006, five municipalities held 25% of the wealth in the country December 16, 2008

The contributions of São Paulo (11,.9%), Rio de Janeiro (5.4%), Brasília (3.8%), Belo Horizonte (1.4%) and Curitiba (1.4%), together... The...

More than 90% of the municipalities had environmental problems December 12, 2008

The seventh edition of the Survey of Municipal Information (Munic), which researched, besides the public administration, topics such as environment,...

In 2007, there was one separation in each four marriages December 04, 2008

In 2007, although there were 916,006 marriages in Brazil, 2.9% more than in 2006 (889,828), the number of marriage dissolutions (divorces and separations...

In 2007, expectation of life at birth was 72.57 years in Brazil December 01, 2008

Between 1991 and 2007, the expectation of life at birth in Brazil increased by 5 years, 6 months and 26 days, and the infant mortality rate (under...

Almost half of salaried workers worked in new enterprises in 2006 November 28, 2008

The number of active enterprises in the Central Register of Enterprises - CEMPRE had a continuous growth between 2000 and 2006, changing from 3.7...

IBGE: Brazilian population aging is in an accelerated rhythm and will stop increasing in 30 years November 27, 2008

Since the 1960’s the growing rate of the Brazilian population has been recording constant decreases, which have accelerated with the significant...

In October, unemployment was stable (7.5%) and income decreased November 19, 2008

The unemployment rate 1 in the six metropolitan areas 2 , surveyed by the Monthly Employment Survey of IBGE, was almost stable in October (7.5%)...

Unemployment rate was 7.6% in September October 23, 2008

The unemployment rate 1 was stable in September (7.6%), compared to the result in August (7.6%), whereas compared to September 2007 (9.0%), there...

IBGE starts data collection for PNAD 2008 October 06, 2008

The data collection for the National Household Sample Survey – PNAD 2008 will start this week, in about 150 thousand households distributed among...

In August, unemployment rate was 7.6% September 25, 2008

In the comparison with July (8.1%), the unemployment rate decreased by 0.5 percentage points while in relation to August 2007 (9.5%), the decrease...

SIS: Education progresses, but still has challenges to face September 24, 2008

The Summary of Social Indicators 2007 –An Analysis of the Brazilian Population Life Conditions shows that, between 1997 and 2007, there was decrease...

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