The IBGE releases today the values of the per capita household earnings related to 2017 for Brazil and Federation Units, based on the Continuous National Household Sample Survey - Continuous PNAD and sent to the Brazilian Court of Audit - TCU. This release addresses Complementary Law no. 143/2013, which establishes the new criteria for sharing the State and Federal District Revenue Sharing Fund - FPE.

The per capita household earnings are calculated as the ratio between the total household earnings – in nominal terms – and the total number of residents. Earnings from labor an other sources from all the residents are taken into account, including those classified as pensioners, domestic workers and relatives of domestic workers. The values were obtained from the gross earnings effectively earned in the reference month of the survey, accruing the information from the first interviews of the first, second, third, and fourth quarters of the 2017 Continuous PNAD.

The Continuous PNAD is a household survey that gathers quarterly socioeconomic and demographic information from nearly 211 thousand households, in about 16 thousand enumeration areas, distributed along nearly 3.5 thousand municipalities.