The unemployment rate fell to 0.6 percentage points in relation to April (8.5%) and 2.2 points in relation to May of the previous year (10.1%). The unemployed population (1.8 million) fell by 7.5% in relation to April and 20.4% in relation to May of the previous year.

 

 

 

The unemployment rate fell to 0.6 percentage points in relation to April (8.5%) and 2.2 points in relation to May of the previous year (10.1%).  The unemployed population (1.8 million) fell by 7.5% in relation to April and 20.4% in relation to May of the previous year.  The unemployed population (21.5 million), did not change significantly in relation to April, but increased by 4.6% in relation to May 2007.  The number of workers with a formal contract (9.5 million) did not change in relation to April, but increased by 9.5% in relation to May of the previous year.  The average real income usually earned by employed persons (R$ 1,208.20) fell by 1.0% in the monthly comparison, but increased by 1.5% in the year.  The average household real income per capita (R$ 784.73) fell by 1.3% in the month and increased by 5.6% in the year.  The volume of real income in effect of the employed population (R$ 26.2 billion) was stable in the month and increased by 7.1% in the year.

 

 

 

 

 

From April to May, the Monthly Employment Survey showed a decrease of 7.5% in the number of unemployed persons in the six surveyed areas.  In relation to May 2007, the decrease was of 20.4%.  In relation to April, there only was a significant change in the metropolitan area of Rio de Janeiro (-10.1%).  In relation to May 2007, there were decreases in Recife (33.8%), Salvador (25.4%), Belo Horizonte (14.4%), Rio de Janeiro (18.2%), São Paulo (19.8%) and Porto Alegre (13.6%).

 

The unemployment rate (7.9%) in the six surveyed areas decreased by 0.6 percentage points in the comparison with April and 2.2 percentage points in the comparison with May 2007.

 

 

 

 

 

In the analysis by areas, in the monthly comparison, there were decreases in Rio de Janeiro and in São Paulo (0.7 and 0.8 percentage points, respectively).  In relation to May of the previous year, the rate had more significant decreases in all the areas: Recife (3.7 percentage points), Salvador (3.3 pp), Belo Horizonte (1.5 pp), Rio de Janeiro (1.6 pp), São Paulo (2.6 pp) and Porto Alegre (1.4 pp).  In the metropolitan areas of the Northeast Region the number of unemployed persons was the lowest of the time series, with the lowest one coming from Recife (8.7%).

 

 

UNEMPLOYED PERSONS (PO)

 

The employed population (21.5 million) in the total six metropolitan areas did not bring a statistical change in relation to April (hike of 0.4%, approximately 89 thousand persons).   In relation to May 2007, the employment increased by 4.6%, or approximately more 954 thousand job places.

 

In relation to April, there were hikes of 1.2% in the metropolitan area of São Paulo and 2.3% in Porto Alegre. In the annual comparison, the employed population increased in Belo Horizonte (5.5%), Rio de Janeiro (3,2%), São Paulo (6,7%) and Porto Alegre (6,4%).  In the table below, the results in relation to the main groups of activity are presented.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Employees WITH a formal contract in the private sector ¹ (44.2% of the PO). In relation to April 2008 stability was observed. Compared to May 2007 there was hike of 9.5%.  In the analysis by areas, in the monthly comparison, there was stability in all the metropolitan areas.  In relation to May 2007, there was increase in Salvador (8.7%), Belo Horizonte (9.9%), Rio de Janeiro (6.4%), São Paulo (12.1%) and Porto Alegre (8.5%).

 

Employees WITHOUT a formal contract in the private sector ¹ (13.2% of the PO).  Monthly and annual stability was observed.  In the areas, the scenario was stable in relation to April and in the year, decrease (-20.9%) in Recife.

 

Military or statutory public servants (7.5% of the PO).  In relation to April, stability was observed, and in the comparison with May, hike of 6.2%.  In the areas, monthly stability was registered and in the year, increase in BH (16.0%) was recorded.

 

Own account workers  (18.7% of the PO) – Stability was observed.  

 

  
AVERAGE REAL INCOME ²

 

In May 2008, for the total six areas, the average real income usually earned by workers (R$ 1,208.20) decreased in relation to April (1.0%).  In the comparison with May 2007, the scenario was of recovery (1.5%).

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the analysis by areas, in relation to April there were decreases in Recife (5.7%), Rio de Janeiro (1.7%), São Paulo (1.1%) and Porto Alegre (2.6%), and increases in Salvador (3.9%) and Belo Horizonte (1.2%).  In the year, there was hike in Salvador (0.7%), Belo Horizonte (3.9%), Rio de Janeiro (3.5%) and Porto Alegre (2.2%), decrease in Recife (-1.1%) and stability in São Paulo.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD REAL INCOME PER CAPITA

 

 

In May 2008, the average household real income per capita was R$ 784.73.  There was decrease in relation to the previous month (-1.3%) and hike of 5.6% in the comparison with May of the previous year.

 

In the analysis by areas, in relation to April, there were hikes in Salvador (-2.9%) and decreases in Recife (-7.4%), Belo Horizonte (-1.0%), Rio de Janeiro (-4.1%) and Porto Alegre (-0.5%). In the comparison with May of the previous year, there were hikes in Salvador (1.6%), Belo Horizonte (7.8%), Rio de Janeiro (6.6%), São Paulo (6.1%) and Porto Alegre (6.4%), and decreases in Recife.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

VOLUME OF REAL INCOME IN EFFECT OF THE EMPLOYED POPULATION 

 

 

The volume of real income earned in effect by the employed population was estimated in 26.1 billion reais,  as could be observed by data of the Monthly Employment Survey of May 2008 (month of reference April 2008), for the total six metropolitan areas. This estimate brought increase in relation to March 2008, approximately (0.5%) and, in relation to April 2007, growth of 8.0%.

 

In the comparison with last March, there was decrease of the volume of income in the metropolitan areas of Recife (6.3%) and Rio de Janeiro (1.0%).  On the other hand increase was registered in Salvador (3.4%), Belo Horizonte (1.4%) and São Paulo (1.7%).  In the comparison with April 2007, there was increase in Salvador (0.7%), Belo Horizonte (10.2%), Rio de Janeiro (8.0%), São Paulo (9.3%) and Porto Alegre (11.1%).  The only metropolitan area with decrease in the annual comparison was Recife (2.3%).

 

 

NOT-ECONOMICALLY ACTIVE PERSONS (PNEA)

 

 

The inactive population, not classified by the survey either as employed or as unemployed, was estimated in 17.8 million persons for the total six metropolitan areas surveyed in May 2008.  This index was stable in the monthly comparison and showed hike in the comparison with May 2007 (1.6%).

 

In the analysis by areas, in relation to the previous month, Belo Horizonte had hike (2.4%).  In the annual comparison, there were hikes in Recife (9.5%) and Salvador (10.1%), and stability in the other metropolitan areas.

 

 

 

 

 

 

NOTES

¹  Household workers, military, statutory public servants (servants of the Single Juridical Regime) and others are not counted in this group.

 

²  The deflator used for the calculation of the real income for each area is the Consumer Price Index of the metropolitan area produced by the IBGE.  In order to calculate the income of the total of the six metropolitan areas covered by the survey, the deflator is the weighed average of the price indexes of these areas.  The weighing variable is the resident population in the urban area of the metropolitan area