In March 2013, industrial employment changed 0.2% over the preceding month, in the seasonally adjusted series, after having registered -0.3% in December, -0.1% in January and 0.0% in February. As a result, the quarterly moving average remained unchanged (0,0%) in the quarter ended in March over the previous month , keeping the stability seen since July last year.

In the seasonally adjusted series, quarter-on-quarter, the industrial employment posted a negative change of 0.2% in Q1 of 2013, after a slight positive change of 0.1% in Q4 last year.

The industrial employment declined 0.6% in the monthly index of March 2013, the 18th negative result in a row in this kind of comparison, but the least intense since January last year (-0.4%). In the cumulative index for the 1st quarter of 2013, the total of the employed persons in the industry shrank 1.0% and posted a subtle reduction in the falling pace over the one recorded for the last quarter of 2012 (-1.2%), both comparisons against the same period a year ago. The annual rate (index accumulated in the last 12 months), recording 1.4% in March 2013, marked levels close to the ones recorded in December (-1.4%), January (1.4%) and February (1.5%).

The complete publication of the survey can be accessed at www.ibge.gov.br/home/estatistica/indicadores/industria/pimes/

Comparing with the same month last year, the industrial employment shrank 0.6% in March 2013, with the contingent of employees recording reduction in nine of the 14 places surveyed.  The main negative impact on the overall average was observed in the Northeast region (-3.7%), pushed at a great extent by the negative rates recorded in 12 of the 18 sectors surveyed. The highlight was the drop in the total number of employed persons in the industries of food and beverages (-4.5%), footwear and leather (-5.1%), petroleum refinement and alcohol production (-11.0%), apparel (-3.1%), mining and quarrying industries (-8.5%) and non-metallic mineral products (-3.7%). It is also worth mentioning the negative results registered by Rio Grande do Sul (-2.3%), Pernambuco (-6.3%), São Paulo (-0.4%) and Bahia (-4.5%), with the first influenced to a great extent by the drops seen in the sectors of  footwear and leather  (-8.0%), of  machinery and equipment (-6.7%), of communication and electric-electronic machinery and apparatus (-15.1%), apparel(-13.9%), of rubber and plastic(-4.5%),  textiles  (-11.7%) and non-metallic mineral products (-4.9%); the second pushed especially by food and beverages (-10.7%), rubber and plastic (-22.6%) and paper and press (-12.4%); the third by the losses registered in transportation (-4.3%), textiles (-7.6%), footwear and leather (-12.2%), other products of the manufacturing industry (-8.0%), paper and press (-2.8%) and apparel (-2.5%); and, the latter, mainly due to the drops seen in footwear and leather (-19.3%), machinery and equipment (-13.9%), non-metallic mineral products (-4.5%), other products of the manufacturing industry (-7.2%) and petroleum refinement and alcohol production (-15.7%).  On the other hand, Paraná (2.0%) registered the most relevant positive contribution to the industrial employment in the country, leveraged to a great extent by food and beverages  (7.0%),  textiles (14.3%),  chemicals  (5.1%),  other products of the manufacturing industry (2.5%) and machinery and equipment (2.1%).

Among the sectors, considering the monthly index, the total of salaried employed persons shrank in 12 of the 18 sectors surveyed. The highlights were the negative results from apparel (-5.5%), footwear and leather (-6.3%), other products of the manufacturing industry (-4.0%), textiles(-4.3%) and wood (-4.7%). On the other hand, the main positive impacts on the industrial average were seen in the sectors of food and beverages (2.7%) and rubber and plastic (2.7%).

In the cumulative index of the first quarter of the year, industrial employment posted a drop of 1.0%, with negative rates in ten of the 14 places and in 11 of the 18 sectors surveyed. Among the places, the Northeast region (-4.7%) marked the main negative impact in the industry overall, followed by Rio Grande do Sul (-3.0%), São Paulo (-0.8%), Pernambuco (-8.5%) and Bahia (-4.6%). On the other hand, Paraná (1.8%) exerted the most important positive pressure in the cumulative index for the first three months of the year. Among the sectors, the most relevant negative contributions to the national average came from apparel (-6.4%), footwear and leather (-4.8%), textiles (-5.2%), other products of the manufacturing industry (-4.1%), transportation (-1.4%) and wood (-5.1%), whereas the sectors of food and beverages (1.6%) and of  rubber and plastic (2.6%) accounted for the main positive influences.

 In the quarterly analysis, industrial employment, shrinking 1.0% in Q1 of 2013, marked the 6^th consecutive quarter of negative results, but reducing the falling pace over the third (-1.8%) and fourth quarters of 2012 (-1.2%), both comparisons against the same periods a year ago. The slight dynamism gain between the last quarter last year and the first this year was seen in nine places and in 11 sectors. the highlights were:  apparel  (from – 9.7% to - 6,.4%),  transportation  (from – 3.3% to – 1.4%),  communication and electric-electronic machinery and apparatus  (from – 2.5% to 0.0%),  basic metals  (from – 3.2% to – 0.3%) and  textiles  (from – 6.8% to – 5.2%), among the sectors ; and Ceará (from -1.8% to -0.8%), Rio de Janeiro (from  -1.2% to -0.2%), Paraná (from 0.8% to 1.8%) and Rio Grande do Sul (from -3.9% to -3.0%), among the places.

Number of hours paid changes -0.4% in relation to February

In March of 2013, the number of hours paid to industrial employees, discounted the seasonal influences, recorded a negative change of 0.4% against the immediately previous month, after registering -0.2% in January and 0.1% in February. With these results, the quarterly moving average index, posting a negative change of 0.1% between the quarters ended in December and January, kept the downward trend started last December. Considering the seasonally adjusted series, in the quarter over quarter comparison, the number of hours paid posted a decrease of by 0.4% in the January-March period, removing the 0.4% advance recorded in the last quarter last year.

In the comparison with the same month a year ago, the number of hours paid marked, in March 2013 (-1.5%), the 19^th consecutive negative rate in that type of analysis. In cumulative index for Q1 of 2013, the number of hours paid in the industry decreased 1.7% and accelerated the falling pace over the result of the last quarter of 2012 (-1.1%), both comparisons against the same period a year ago. The annual rate (cumulative index in the last 12 months), recording a contraction of 2.0% in March 2013, repeated last February’s result and kept the upward trend started in February of 2011 (4.5%).

In March 2013, the number of hours paid fell 1.5% in relation to the same month a year ago, with negative rates in 13 of the 14 places and in 12 of the 18 sectors surveyed. Among the sectors, the main negative influences came from apparel (-6.8%), footwear and leather (-8.5%), textiles (-5.5%), other products of the manufacturing industry (-4.7%), machinery and equipment(- 1.9%), transportation (-1.8%), wood (-6.3%) and paper and press  (-2.1%). Conversely, food and beverages (1.2%) and rubber and plastic (2.0%) recorded the main positive results this month.

Among the places, as compared to the same month a year ago, the Northeast region (-4.0%) posted the main negative influence on the country overall, pushed to a great extent by the reduction in the number of hours paid in the sectors of food and beverages (-4.8%),  footwear and leather (-5.5%), petroleum refinement and alcohol production (-13.0%), mining and quarrying industries  (-8.1%)  other products of the manufacturing industry (- 7.7%), non-metallic mineral products (-3.4%)  apparel (-2.2%) and  rubber and plastic (-5.8%). It is worth mentioning the negative impacts posted by Rio Grande do Sul (-3.6%), mainly due to the contraction seen in  Footwear and Leather (- 9.2%), machinery and equipment (- 9.3%), apparel  (-16.7%), rubber and plastic (- 7.2%), communication and electric-electronic machinery and apparatus  (- 8.9%), textiles (- 12.4%) and  non-metallic mineral products (- 7.3%);  São Paulo (-0.9%), due to the decreases coming from transportation (-5.5%), footwear and leather (-18.9%), textiles (-9.7%), other products of the manufacturing industry(-7.8%), fabricated metal products (-3.2%) and  apparel (-4.5%); Pernambuco (-8.6%), due to the lower number of hours paid in the sectors of food and beverages(-14.2%) and of rubber and plastic (-25.4%); Minas Gerais (-1.6%), influenced to a great extent by the negative pressures from apparel (-12.8%), fabricated metal products (-6.3%), textiles (-8.5%), food and beverages (-1.4%), chemicals(-4,7%) and wood (-16.6%); and Bahia (-5.2%), mostly as a result of the drops in footwear and leather (-20.4%) and food and beverages (-4.5%). On the other hand, Paraná (0.5%) exerted the main positive contributions to the total number of hours paid, pushed to a great extent by the growth in the sectors of communication and electric-electronic machinery and apparatus (9.2%), textiles (13.3%) and chemicals (7.9%).

In the cumulative index for the first quarter 2013, there was a downfall of 1.7% in the number of hours paid, with 12 of the 18 sectors surveyed reporting negative rates. The most relevant negative impacts on the overall average of the industry came from apparel (-7.4%), footwear and leather (-7.4%), textiles (-5.6%), other products of the manufacturing industry (-5.3%), machinery and equipment (-2.7%), transportation (-1.8%), wood (-6.1%) and paper and press (-2.5%). Conversely, food and beverages (1.1%) exerted the most relevant positive contribution to the total number of hours paid to the industry employees. Concerning the areas, 13 of the 14 places presented negative rates, with a highlight to the contraction of 4.8% observed in the Northeast region, followed by the losses São Paulo (-1.3%), Rio Grande do Sul (-4.3%), Pernambuco (-8.9%), Bahia (-5.4%) and North and Central-West regions (-1.4%). However, Paraná (1.1%) registered the only positive rate in the first three months of 2013.

In a quarterly basis, the number of hours paid shrank 1.7% in the January-March period in 2013, the 7^th consecutive negative rate in this kind of confront, speeding up the falling pace over the result of the last quarter of 2012 (- 1.1%), all comparisons against the same period a year ago. The dynamism loss in the total of hours paid between these two periods was followed by 11 sectors and eight places. Among the activities, the greatest pace reductions between the two periods were registered by food and beverages, which came from 4.7% in the October-December period to 1.1% in the following quarter, machinery and equipment (from -0.4% to -2.7%), chemicals (from 2.2% to 0.3%), fabricated metal products (from 0.3% to -0.8%) and petroleum refinement and alcohol production (from 0.9% to -2.2%), whereas, among the places, the North and Central-West regions (from 0.7% to -1.4%), Espírito Santo (from -2.1% to -3.8%), Pernambuco (from -7.5% to -8.9%), São Paulo (from -0.1% to -1.3%) and Minas Gerais (from 0.7% to -0.5%) registered the largest deceleration between the two periods.

Real Payroll is 0.5% lower than in February

In March 2013, the seasonally adjusted industry workers’ real payroll decreased 0.5% after advancing 3.0% in the preceding month. It should be noted that this month result was influenced by the positive behavior of the  manufacturing industry (0.6%), since the  mining and quarrying sector posted a drop of 8.4%, pushed especially by profit-sharing plans in several enterprises of the sector in the previous month, when it grew 10.5%. The index of the quarterly moving average recorded a drop of 1.0% between the quarters ended in February and March, the 2^nd consecutive negative rate, but less intense than the one seen a month before (- 1.5%). Considering the seasonally adjusted series, quarter-on-quarter, the real payroll decreased 2.5% in the January-March period in 2013, after growing for two quarters in a row, period when it advanced 4.7%.

Contrasting with the same month of the previous year, the value of the real payroll rose by 2.5% in March 2013, the 39^th consecutive positive result in this kind of comparison. In the cumulative index for Q1 of 2013, the value of the real payroll rose 1.9%, but with a reduction in the falling pace over the last quarter of 2012 (7.5%) - both comparisons made against the same period in the previous year. The annual rate, cumulative index for the last twelve months, registering a growth of 3.7% in March 2013, posted reduction in the growth intensity against the results of December (4.4%), January (4.1%) and February (3.8%).

In the comparison with the same month of the previous year, the value of the real payroll recorded an expansion of 2.5% in March 2013, with positive results in ten out of the 14 places surveyed. The main positive influences on the national overall were seen in São Paulo (3.2%), Rio de Janeiro (8.9%), Minas Gerais (2.2%), Rio Grande do Sul (2.4%), North and Central-West regions (2.2%) and Paraná (1.7%). In those places, the activities that most contributed positively to the rise in the value of the payroll were, respectively: food and beverages (10.5%), chemicals (9.8%), communication and electric-electronic machinery and apparatus (14.0%) and transportation (2.5%); paper and press (72.2%), influenced by the profit-sharing plan and results from an important enterprise in the sector, mining and quarrying (7.7%), chemicals (13.9%), machinery and equipment (13.8%) and rubber and plastic (14.2%); transportation (17.7%), basic metals (10.7%), food and beverages (5.3%) and machinery and equipment (8.3%); food and beverages (8.1%), fabricated metal products (12.6%) and transportation (6.4%); mining and quarrying (19.7%), food and beverages (1.8%), petroleum refinement and alcohol production (12.7%) and fabricated metal products (7.7%); communication and electric-electronic machinery and apparatus (15.8%), machinery and equipment (7.4%), chemicals (10.7%), other products of the manufacturing industry (8.8%), textiles (18.6%) and transportation (1.9%). Conversely, the main negative contributions came from the Northeast region (- 1.7%) and from Pernambuco (- 6.7%), leveraged, to a great extent, by the reductions in food and beverages  (- 5.1%) and  petroleum refinement and alcohol production  (- 16.6%), in the first place, and food and beverages (- 16,6%) and communication and electric-electronic machinery and apparatus (- 25.4%), in the second.

Among the sectors, in the monthly index of March 2013, the value of the real payroll in the country overall rose in 12 of the 18 sectors surveyed, with a highlight to chemicals (7.7%),  transportation (3.7%),  communication and electric-electronic machinery and apparatus (7.4%),  food and beverages (2.4%), paper and press (6.1%), mining and quarrying (2.7%), machinery and equipment (1.3%) and fabricated metal products (2.3%). On the other hand, the main negative impacts were seen in apparel (- 3.8%), basic metals (- 1.1%) and other products of manufacturing industry (-1.6%).

In the index accumulated in the first quarter of 2013, the real payroll rose by 1.9%, with positive results in 11 of the 14 places surveyed. The main positive contributions on the overall industry came from São Paulo (1.3%) and Rio de Janeiro (6.7%). Of note are the influences from the North and Central-West regions (4.4%), Minas Gerais (2.0%), Rio Grande do Sul (2.0%) and Paraná (1.8%). Conversely, the negative impacts came from the Northeast region (-1.0%), Pernambuco (-3.5%) and Bahia (-1.6%).

Among the sectors, considering the cumulative index of the year, the value of the real payroll advanced in 13 of the 18 activities surveyed, leveraged particularly by the gains coming from food and beverages (3.7%), chemicals (6.0%), mining and quarrying industries (6.1%), communication and electric-electronic machinery and apparatus (4.6%),  paper and press  (4.0%),  rubber and plastic (4.1%) and machinery and equipment (1.6%). On the other hand, the sectors of basic metals (- 4.4%), apparel (- 5.1%) and textiles (- 2.0%) exerted the sharpest negative influences on the national overall.

In the quarterly analysis, the value of the real payroll, advancing 1.9% in Q1 of 2013, kept the sequence of positive rates begun in Q1 2010 (3.1%), but reduced the growth pace against the result of the October-December period of 2012 (7.5%), all comparisons against the same periods a year ago. This movement of dynamism loss in the value of the real payroll between the last quarter last year and the first one this year occurred in 17 of the 18 activities, with highlight to  food and beverages (from 13.9% to 3.7%), machinery and equipment  (from 6.4% to 1.6%) and  fabricated metal products (from 8.9% to 0.5%). Among the 13 places that decelerated between these two periods, the highlights were Paraná (from 11.3% to 1.8%), Santa Catarina (from 10.7% to 1.5%) and Ceará (from 11.4% to 3.0%).