Indicator did not have a significant statistical change in relation to February (9.9%) and was similar to the one of March 2006 (10.4%).   The average real income of the employed population (R$ 1,109.50) was stable in relation to February (R$ 1,109.87) and increased by 5.0% compared to March 2006 (R$ 1,056.53).

The total income received by the employed population, in February 2007, was estimated in R$ 22.5 billion.  In relation to 2006, there was hike of 4.4% in the total employed persons with a formal contract, the 36th consecutive increase in this comparison.

SOURCE: IBGE, Diretoria de Pesquisas, Coordenação de Trabalho e Rendimento, Pesquisa Mensal de Emprego.

The Monthly Employment Survey (PME) is publishing for the first time the overall effective income of the employed population (2) , estimated in R$ 22.5 billion for the six metropolitan areas in February 2007.  There was stability in relation to January, but hike of 7.7% in relation to February 2006, the major change in this month, as shows the time series: February of 2002 to 2003 (-0.2%); February of 2003 to 2004 (-1.9%); February 2004 to 2005 (6.8%); February 2005 to 2006 (3.5%).

The Monthly Employment Survey of the IBGE also begins to publish the income of work of persons with 10 years old or more using a methodological refinement. It is the imputation of values of the income of employed persons in households in which there was a lack of information regarding this topic, and where such values were previously considered as ignored (approximately 2.3% of the employed persons in 2006).  The estimates of income of the time series initiated in March 2002 were all calculated again. For more details we recommend to access the methodological note "Imputation of values referent to the variables of income of  work"  in the site of IBGE (www.ibge.gov.br).

UNEMPLOYMENT RATE

In March 2007, the unemployment rate was estimated in 10.1% for the aggregated six areas included in the survey, presenting stability in the comparison with last February. In relation to March 2006 there also was no change.

In the analysis by regions, in the comparison with the previous month, change was observed in this estimate only in the Metropolitan Area of São Paulo (from 10.6% to 11.5%).  In the other areas the performance was of stability.  In the comparison with March 2006, two areas registered decrease: Recife with the rate changing from 16.5% to 12.0% and Rio de Janeiro with the rate changing from 8.5% to 7.4%.

EMPLOYED PERSONS (PO)

The number of employed persons, estimated in 20.6 million in March 2007, increased 0.7% in relation to February, and 3.2% (or approximately 641 thousand persons) in relation to March 2006.

In the analysis by areas, in relation to February 2007, the number of employed persons did not have significant change in any of the surveyed areas. In the annual comparison, Recife (3.4%), Salvador (4.5%), Belo Horizonte (6.0%), Rio de Janeiro (2.3%) and São Paulo (3.2%) had increase and, in Porto Alegre, there was stability.

Men represented, in March 2007, 55.7% of the employed population, while women, 44.3%.  The population between 25 and 49 years old represented 63.2% of the total employed persons.  The percentage of employed persons in March 2007 with 11 years or more of study was 53.6%.

The PME estimated in 56.7% the proportion of persons working in enterprises with 11 or more persons.  In the enterprises with 6 to 10 employed persons, this proportion was 6.2%, while for those with maximum of 5 employed persons, this proportion was 37.1%.

According to PME, 49.1% of the employed population worked, in March 2007, 40 to 44 weekly hours of work and approximately 33.4%, more than 45 weekly hours of work.  On the average, according to the data of the survey, 68.5% of workers in the six surveyed areas had that work for at least 2 years; 11.7% between 1 year and less than 2 years; 17.9% between one month and one year and only 1.9% for at least 1 month.

RESULTS OF THE MAIN GROUPS OF ACTIVITY

Mining and quarrying, manufacturing industry and distribution of electricity, gas and water (16.9% of the employed population). The number of employed persons in this group was stable in relation to February 2007 as well as in relation to March 2006, for the total of the six areas. In the analysis by areas, no change was observed in this group in none of the surveyed areas, in both comparisons. 

Construction (7.4% of the employed population).  In the total of the six areas, in the monthly comparison, there was stability and in the comparison with March 2006, hike of 5.0%. In the analysis by areas, there was not change in none of the surveyed areas, in relation to February.  In the annual comparison, two areas showed increase: Recife (19.9%) and Belo Horizonte (13.2%). 

Trade, repair of automotive vehicles and of personal and domestic objects and retail fuel trade, (19.4% of the employed population). Without change in relation to February and, in the annual comparison, increase (3.5%), for the total of the six areas.  In the analysis by areas stability was observed.

Services rendered to companies, rents, real estate activities and financial mediation (14.9% of the employed population). There was no change in the monthly comparison and, in relation to 2006, hike of 7.5%, for the total of the six areas. In the analysis by areas, in the comparison with the previous month all areas had stability and in the comparison with March 2006, hikes were observed in Salvador (17.7%), Belo Horizonte (21.3%) and São Paulo (7.0%). 

Education, health, social services, public administration, defense and social security (15.6% of the employed population). In the total of the six areas, in both comparisons, there was stability. There were no changes by areas, in both comparisons.

Domestic services (8.4% of the employed population). In the total of the six areas, there was stability in relation to February and hike of 6.5% in relation to March 2006.  In the analysis by areas, there was not change in the monthly comparison, but in relation to March 2006, there were hikes in Recife (17.8%), Belo Horizonte (11.9%) and São Paulo (8.8%).

Other services (lodging, feeding, transportation,storage and communication, urban sanitation, associative, leisure, cultural, sport activities and personal services, (16.9% of the employed population). There was no change in the surveyed periods, in the total of the six areas. In the analysis by areas, in relation to the previous month, no change was observed. In relation to March 2006, Porto Alegre registered decrease (-7.9%).

CLASSES OF WORKERS IN THE LABOR MARKET

Employees WITH a formal contract in the private sector (excluding domestic workers, military, statutory public servants and others, 41.8% of the employed population). In relation to February 2007, the number of workers in this class of activity was stable.  Compared to March 2006 there was hike of 4.4%, which means, increase of approximately 363 thousand persons working with a formal contract. In the analysis by areas, in the monthly comparison, there was stability in all the areas. In relation to March 2006, there were hikes in Salvador (8.5%), Belo Horizonte (7.4%) and Porto Alegre (4.8%).

Employees WITHOUT a formal contract in the private sector (excluding domestic workers, military, statutory public servants and others, 14.0% of the employed population).  There was stability in both comparisons, for the total of the six areas. In the analysis by areas, only in Porto Alegre there were decreases, in relation to February (-9.4%) and March 2006 (-10.5%).

Own account workers  (19.5% of the employed population). Stability in the monthly comparison, and in relation to March 2006, there was hike of 5.9%, for the total of the six areas. In the analysis by areas, the scenario was of hike in Porto Alegre (6.9%), in relation to the previous month. In the annual comparison, hikes in Rio de Janeiro (7.0%) and in São Paulo (8.9%).   

AVERAGE REAL INCOME

In March 2007, the average real income usually earned by the workers in the six metropolitan areas (R$ 1,109.50) was stable in relation to February (R$ 1,109.87) and increased by 5.0% compared to March 2006 (R$ 1,056.53).                     

In the analysis by areas, in relation to February, there was recovery in the metropolitan areas of Rio de Janeiro (4.2%) and Porto Alegre (0.9%).  In Recife (-1.6%), Belo Horizonte (-3.5%) and São Paulo (-1.4%) decrease was observed and in Salvador, stability. In the annual comparison, there was hike in all the six surveyed metropolitan areas: Recife (1.3%), Salvador (3.5%), Belo Horizonte (1.9%), Rio de Janeiro (8.2%), São Paulo (4.7%) and Porto Alegre (5.1%).  In the following table, we have the income of the classes of workers.

SOURCE: IBGE, Diretoria de Pesquisas, Coordenação de Trabalho e Rendimento, Pesquisa Mensal de Emprego.

In the following table we have the average income of workers by group of activity.

SOURCE: IBGE, Diretoria de Pesquisas, Coordenação de Trabalho e Rendimento, Pesquisa Mensal de Emprego. 

AVERAGE REAL INCOME PER CAPITA OF EMPLOYED POPULATION (2)

In March 2007, for the total of the six areas, the average real income per capita was estimated in R$ 817.54, with decrease of 1.0% in relation to February and hike of 7.5% in the comparison with March 2006.

In relation to February, there were decreases in Recife (-1.1%), Salvador (-0.6%), Belo Horizonte (-5.3%) and São Paulo (-3.1%), and hikes in Rio de Janeiro (4.7%) and in Porto Alegre (0.8%). In the annual comparison, there were hikes in all the metropolitan areas, as shows the following table:

SOURCE: IBGE, Diretoria de Pesquisas, Coordenação de Trabalho e Rendimento, Pesquisa Mensal de Emprego.

OVERALL EFFECTIVE INCOME OF THE EMPLOYED POPULATION

In February 2007, the Overall Effective Income of the Employed Population estimated by the Monthly Employment Survey of March 2007 was R$ 22.5 billion, in the total of the six areas.  There was stability in relation to January, but hike of 7.7% in relation to February of the previous year, the major annual change of February: February 2002 to 2003 (-0.2%); February 2003 to 2004 (-1.9%); February 2004 to 2005 (6.8%); February 2005 to 2006 (3.5%).

In the monthly comparison, there were decreases in Recife (-2.3%), Salvador (-3.3%), Belo Horizonte (-2.2%) and São Paulo (-1.2%), and hikes in Rio de Janeiro (3.2%) and Porto Alegre (2.5%).  In the annual comparisons there were hikes in all the areas: Recife (4.1%), Salvador (7.8%), Belo Horizonte (6.1%), Rio de Janeiro (12.0%), São Paulo (6.3%) and Porto Alegre (7.1%).

The series of the annual averages of the overall effective income of the employed population is growing: from 2003 to 2004 (3.6%), from 2004 to 2005 (5.5%) and from 2005 to 2006 (6.4%).

SOURCE: IBGE, Diretoria de Pesquisas, Coordenação de Trabalho e Rendimento, Pesquisa Mensal de Emprego.

Notes:

1) Sum  of the effective earnings received in the month of reference of the survey (previous month to the month that is being published).

2) It was considered as household monthly income per capita the division of the household monthly income by the number of components of the household unit, excluding thoses whose condition in the household unit was pensioner, household worker or relative of household worker.