The survey will contain questions about violence and access to police and justice services, allowing comparisons with PNAD 1988.

This Monday marks the beginning of the data collection for the National Household Sample Survey – 2009. Over 150 thousand households will be visited all over the 27 Brazilian Federative Units, in order to investigate topics relative to employment, income, sanitation, literacy, demography, migration and durable goods existing in households, among others.

Besides, the survey will have, for the first time, a supplement about Victimization and Justice, which will investigate if household dwellers have undergone ay kind of violence and also if they have sought help from the police or justice institutions in order to solve conflicts. All the results will be released in 2010. 

Household security

A question about security devices existing in the household, such as locks or security bars, burglar bars, electronic alarms, cameras, bodyguards,  wicket gates or high walls, besides slivers of broken glass or barbed wire, among other resources.

Standard questionnaire presents some new questions

PNAD 2009 will include some improvements. Respondents will inform if they have used Internet in the last three months, either in the household or outside.

A question about the marital status of residents has been included in PNAD 2009; the ones who attend public schools will inform if it is municipal, state of federal.

Quality of nutrition in households surveyed again

PNAD 2009 will have a new edition of the Supplement on the Characteristics of Food Security, as a sequence to the field survey which went took place in 2004.

The survey which will replace PNAD and PME will be tested, together with the one about use of time

The last quarter of the year will bring a test of Continuous PNAD, the new survey format which may be adopted by IBGE in 2011. This test will take place in six Federative Units: Pará, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Rio Grande do Sul and the Federal District and, in Rio, it will be extended for four years more. Another test refers to the survey about Use of Time, which will investigate details of the daily routine of household members.