The unemployment rate shows no statistically significant change in relation to June (9.7%), but it has fallen by 1.2 percentage points in relation to July 2006 (10.7%).

 

The unemployment rate shows no statistically significant change in relation to June (9.7%), but it fell by 1.2 percentage points in relation to July 2006 (10.7%). The number of unemployed persons (2,2 million) remained constant in relation to the previous month and fell by 10.5% in relation to July 2006. The employed population (20,8 million) did not change in relation to June, but increased by 3.0% in comparison with July 2006. The average real income of the employed population (R$ 1,108,30) fell by 1.2% in relation to June, but was 2.5% higher than that of July 2006. The average real household income per capita, (R$ 698,00) fell by 0.5% in relation to June, and increased by 3.5%b in comparison with July last year. The average real volume of income estimated for June (R$ 22,8 billion) fell by 0.9% compared to May and increased by 4.1% compared to June 2006.

 

 

 

In July 2007, the unemployment rate estimated by IBGE’s Monthly Employment Survey  for the group of six metropolitan areas was 9.5%; this result showed stability in comparison with last June (9.7%) and decrease by 1,2 percentage points. In comparison with July last year, the rate was 10.7%.  

 

By area, in comparison with the previous month, only the metropolitan area of Rio de Janeiro had change in this estimate, with decrease by 0.9 percentage points. In relation to July 2006, the rate decreased in five metropolitan areas: Recife, (-2.7 percentage points), Belo Horizonte (-1.8 percentage points), Rio de Janeiro (-1.6 percentage points), São Paulo (-1.0 percentage points) and Porto Alegre (-1.2 percentage points). In Salvador the change (-0.1 percentage points) was not statistically significant.

 

 

 

 

 

EMPLOYED PERSONS

 

The number of employed persons, estimated as 20,8 million in July 2007 did not change in relation to the previous year, but increased by 3.0% (about 603 thousand persons) in relation to July 2006.

 

By area, in relation to June, the number of employed person underwent significant change only in the metropolitan area of Belo Horizonte (2.1%). In the annual comparison, there was increase of the rate in Salvador (6.5%), Belo Horizonte (4,5%) and São Paulo e Porto Alegre (3,0%).

Men accounted for 55.8% of the employed population, whereas women, for 44.2%. The population between 25 and 49 years of age accounted for 63.6% of the total number of employed persons. The survey also showed that the percentage of persons employed in July 2007 with 11 or more years of schooling was 53.8%.

 

Main groups of activity:

 

Mining and quarrying industry, manufacturing industry and distribution of electricity, gas and water (17.0% of the employed population)

It was stable both in relation to June 2007 and to July 2006, for the group of six metropolitan areas and in each one of them.

 

 

Construction (7.4% of the PO) In the group of six metropolitan areas, in the monthly comparison, there was stability in relation to July 2006, with increase by 7.0%. In the analysis by area, in comparison with June, there was increase in Belo Horizonte (7.5%) and, in the annual comparison, in Belo Horizonte (17.5%) and São Paulo (16.5%).

 

Trade, repair of automotive vehicles and of personal and domestic objects and retail trade of fuels (19.4% of the PO) In the group of six metropolitan areas, in both comparisons, there was stability. In the analysis by area, in Belo Horizonte, there was increase by 5.3% in relation to last June. In comparison with July 2006, only Salvador had significant change (12.8%).

 

Services rendered to enterprises, rents, real estate activities and financial mediation (15.0% of the PO) There was stability in the monthly comparison and increase by 9.7% in relation to the previous year, for the total of six metropolitan areas. In the analysis by area, there was stability in comparison with June. In comparison with July last year, there were increases in Recife (20.7%), Rio de Janeiro (13.6%) and São Paulo (8.6%).

 

Education, health, social services, public administration, defense and social security (15.9% of the PO) In the group of six metropolitan areas, in comparison with June results, there was increase by 2.9%., and stability in relation to July results. In the monthly analysis by area, there was increase in São Paulo (6.5%). In comparison with July 2006, the rate increased in Rio de Janeiro (6.9%).

 

Domestic services (8.4% of the PO) The rate remained constant in both comparisons, in the group of six metropolitan areas. In the analysis by area, in relation to June, there was decrease in Recife (-14.2%). In comparison with July 2006, there was stability.

 

 

Other services¹ (16.3% of the PO) There was stability in both comparisons, in the group of six metropolitan areas. In the analysis by area, in the monthly comparison, there was decrease in Belo Horizonte (-5.4%).

 

Analysis of the type of participation in the labor market

 

Workers WITH a formal contract in the private sector² (42.3% of the PO) In relation to June 2007, there was stability. In relation to July 2006 there was increase of 5.2%, or approximately, 437 thousand persons working with a formal contract. In the analysis by area, there was increase in Belo Horizonte, in the monthly comparison. In relation to June 2006, there were higher rates in Recife (13.5%), Salvador (9.7%), Belo Horizonte (10.6%) and Rio de Janeiro (4.6%). 

Workers WITHOUT a formal contract in the private sector³  (13.8% of the PO) There was stability in comparison with June. In relation to July 2006, there was decrease (-4.4%) in the group of six metropolitan areas. In the analysis by area, there was stability in all the metropolitan areas, in the monthly comparison. In relation to July 2006, there was decrease of the rate in the metropolitan area of Rio de Janeiro (-13.2%).

 

Own-account workers (19.4% of the PO) In relation to June, the rate remained constant. In comparison with the pervious year, there was increase by 4.7% for the group of six metropolitan areas. By area, there was stability in relation to the previous year. In the annual comparison, there was increase in Salvador (8.7%) and São Paulo (11.7%).

 

 

UNEMPLOYED PERSONS

 

 

There was stability of the number of employed persons (2,2 million) in relation to the previous month. In comparison with July 2006, there was decline (-10.5%) in the group of six metropolitan areas surveyed.

 

 

In the analysis by area, in relation to June, there was decrease in Rio de Janeiro (12.5%). In comparison with July 2006, there were decreases in Recife (-18.8%), Belo Horizonte and Rio de Janeiro, (-18.2%) and Porto Alegre (12.1%).

 

Among the unemployed, 57.6% were women; 7.8% were up to 17 years of age; 38.3% were between 18 and 24 years of age, 47.4%, between 25 and 49 years of age, and 6.5% were 50 years of age or over. Besides, 20.3% were searching for their first job and 23.9% were head of the household. In terms of the job searching period: 25.6% had been searching for a job for a period no longer than 30 days; 45.8% for a period of time between 31 days and 6 months; 8.6% for between 7 and 11 months; and 19.9% for a period of at least 1 year.

 

In July 2005, 45.8% of the unemployed had finished at least high school; in July 2006, 47.7% and, in the last survey, this figure reached 49.8%.

 

AVERAGE REAL INCOME⁴

 

In July 2007, in the group of six metropolitan areas, the average real income usually earned by workers (R$ 1,108,30) decreased (-1.2%) in relation to June. In comparison with July 2006, there was increase by 2.5%.

In the analysis by area, in relation to June, there was recovery in Recife (1.5%) and Belo Horizonte (0.4%), decrease of the rate in Rio de Janeiro (0.8%) and São Paulo (2.2%) and stability in Salvador and in Porto Alegre. In the annual comparison, there were hikes in Recife (2.6%), Salvador (2.0%), Belo Horizonte (1.8%), Rio de Janeiro (8.8%) and Porto Alegre (4.5%), and decrease in São Paulo (-0.6%).

 

 

 

 

 

Average Real Household Income Per Capita⁵

 

In July 2007, in the group of six metropolitan areas, the real average household income per capita (R$ 698,00) decreased by 0.5% in relation to June. In comparison with July 2006, there was recovery by 3.5%.

 

In the analysis by area, in relation to the previous month, there was decrease in Rio de Janeiro (-1.1%) and São Paulo and recovery in Recife (3.3%), Salvador (3.7%), Belo Horizonte (2.5%) and Porto Alegre (3.7%). In comparison with July 2006, only the metropolitan area of São Paulo faced decrease (-0.8%), whereas there were gains in Salvador (5.7%), Belo Horizonte (3.7%), Rio de Janeiro (10.9%) and Porto Alegre (6.8%), and stability in Recife.

 

 

 

Volume of Real Income of the Employed Population⁶

 

The Volume of Real Income of the Employed Population (relative to June 2007), for the total of six metropolitan areas, was estimated as R$ 22,8 billion. There was fall in relation to May (0.9%) and significant increase (4.1%) in relation to June last year.

 

In the metropolitan area of São Paulo, there was decrease, in the monthly comparison (3.3%); in the other areas there was a growing trend in Recife (2.4%), Salvador (2.1%), Belo Horizonte (2.7%) and Porto Alegre (1.5%) and stability in Rio de Janeiro. In the analysis by year only São Paulo faced decline of income (-0.5%), whereas in the other metropolitan areas investigated by PME there was increase: Recife (4.7%), Salvador (7.4%), Belo Horizonte (5.0%), Rio de Janeiro (10.7%) and Porto Alegre (7.7%).

 

 

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¹ Lodging and feeding, transportation, storage and communications, associate, recreational, cultural and sports activities, personal services.

 

² Except domestic workers, military and civil servants and others.

 

³ Except domestic workers, military and civil servants and others.

 

⁴ Income usually earned.

 

⁵ Monthly household income per capita is the division of the monthly household income ersulting from work by the number of members of the household, except those who receive pension benefits, domestic workers or erlatives of the domestic workers.

 

⁶ The sum of the income usualy earned in all services rendered in the monthnof reference of the survey (the month before the month of release of the survey)