In January 2012, the industrial employment registered a negative change of 0.3% as compared to the immediately previous month...

In January 2012, the industrial employment registered a negative change of 0.3% as compared to the immediately previous month (in the seasonally adjusted series), after pointing to a positive change of 0.1% in December and accumulating a drop of 1.0% between September and November 2011. Still in the seasonally adjusted series, the quarterly moving average index recorded a negative change of 0.1% between December and January. It kept the downward trend begun in last October. Comparing with January 2011, the employed persons overall in the industry decreased 0.5%, the fourth negative rate in this kind of contrast, almost the same downfall registered in the last quarter of 2011 (-0.4%). The annual rate (index accumulated in the last 12 months) recorded an expansion of 0.8% in January 2012, and continued the downward trend started in February 2011 (3.9%).

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Contrasting January 2012/ January 2011, the industrial employment fell 0.5%. The contingent of workers fell in eight of the 14 areas surveyed. The main negative impact occurred in São Paulo (-3.0%), reinforced by the negative rates in 13 of the 18 sectors surveyed, especially in the industries of fabricated metal products (-9.4%), basic metals (-17.9%), rubber and plastic (-8.2%), communication and electric-electronic machinery and apparatus (-6.8%), paper and press (-5.7%), footwear and leather (-12.3%), textiles (-4.4%) and apparel (-3.9%). The negative result seen in Santa Catarina (-1.5%) was influenced by the drops in the sectors of wood (-17.2%), apparel (-4.7%), textiles (-4.7%) and footwear and leather (-19.3%).  In Ceará (-2.8%), the decrease was due to the losses in footwear and leather (-4.5%), textiles (-8.3%) and food and beverages (-3.1%). The Northeast region (-0.4%) was pushed by the reductions coming from footwear and leather (-6.9%), apparel (-5.7%) and textiles (-9.3%).

Paraná (4.6%), Minas Gerais (2.5%), North and Central-West regions (1.7%) and Pernambuco (4.2%) marked the main positive contributions. In the industry in Paraná, the most important contributions came from food and beverages (13.2%) and communication and electric-electronic machinery and apparatus (32.6%), whereas in Minas Gerais the highlights were food and beverages (4.4%), basic metals (7.4%), transportation means (4.0%) and mining and quarrying industry (5.1%). In the industrial parks of the North and Central-West regions and of Pernambuco, the segments that most influenced the overall of the employed persons were communication and electric-electronic machinery and apparatus (27.8%) and food and beverages (4.1%) in the former, and food and beverages (8.1%) in the latter.

Among the sectors, considering the monthly index, the industrial employment receded in nine of the 18 sectors surveyed. The highlights were footwear and leather (-8.6%), apparel (-5.3%), fabricated metal products (-4.9%), wood (-11.3%), rubber and plastic (-4.8%) and textiles (-4.5%). Food and beverages (5.1%), transportation means (2.8%), machinery and equipment (2.1%), communication and electric-electronic machinery and apparatus (2.2%) and mining and quarrying industries (4.5%) exerted the main positive impacts on the industry overall.

Number of hours paid shrinks 0.2% in January 

In January 2012, the number of hours paid to the industry workers, in the seasonally adjusted series, presented again a negative result (-0.2%) in relation to the immediately previous month, after accumulating a loss of 2.0% between September and November 2011 and a growth of 0.5% in last December. For that reason, in the seasonally adjusted series, the quarterly moving average index presented stability (0.0%) between the quarters closed in December and January, after marking predominantly negative results since last May.

The number of hours paid in the industry, recording a decrease of 1.5% in January 2012, registered the fifth consecutive negative rate, with a slightly more intense falling pace than the one seen in the last quarter of 2011 (-1.3%) - both comparisons made against the same period in the previous year.  The annual rate, index accumulated in the last 12 months, recorded a positive change of 0.2% in January 2012 and kept pointing to less intense advances since February 2011 (4.5%). 

In January 2012, the number of hours paid reduced 1.5% in relation to the same month in the previous year, with negative rates in nine of the 14 places and in 11 of the 18 sectors surveyed.  Among the sectors, the main negative pressures came from apparel (-6.7%), footwear and leather (-9.1%) fabricated metal products (-5.9%) wood (-10.7%) and textiles (-5.4%). Food and beverages (3.1%) exerted the most relevant positive contribution to the industry overall. 

Among the places, concerning the monthly index, São Paulo (-4.3%) posted the main negative influence on the country overall, pushed at a great extent by the reduction in the number of hours paid in the sectors of fabricated metal products (-11.5%), communication and electrical-electronic machinery and apparatus (-10.6%), basic metals (-21.7%), rubber and plastic (-6.3%), transportation means (-3.1%), paper and press (-4.9%). Other negative impacts came from Santa Catarina (-1.9%), mainly reinforced by the downfalls registered in apparel (-7.2%), wood (-16.1%) and textiles (-6.9%); and from Bahia (-4.0%), especially driven by the retraction seen in footwear and leather (-24.0%). Minas Gerais (2.5%) gave the most significant contribution to the total number of hours paid, pushed by the growth in the sectors of basic metals (9.5%), food and beverages (3.7%), machinery and equipment (9.9%), mining and quarrying industries (5.8%), transportation means (3.8%) and non-metallic minerals (5.4%). In Pernambuco (4.8%) and Paraná (1.4%) the increases were mainly attributable to the advances seen in the sectors of food and beverages (8.4%) in the former, and of communication and electric-electronic machinery and apparatus (38.6%), of other products from the manufacturing industry (7.4%), and of transportation means (7.3%) in the latter.

Real Payroll grows 5.1% in January

In January 2012, the value of the real payroll of the industry workers (seasonally adjusted) grew 5.1% compared with the immediately previous month, after a contraction of 1.8% in last December.  It is worth mentioning that this result was due to the rise of the manufacturing industry (6.6%), since the mining and quarrying industry posted a decrease of 15.3%, reversing the expansion of 15.6% accumulated in last December and November. Based on these results, the quarterly moving average index advanced 1.4% between the quarters closed in December and January, after drops in three consecutive months, accumulating a loss of 2.7%. 

Contrasting with the same month of the previous year, the real payroll rose by 4.4% in January 2012 (the 25^th consecutive positive result in this kind of comparison), showing a faster pace than the one observed in the last quarter of 2011 (2.4%). The annual rate (index accumulated in the last 12 months) recorded a slight reduction in the growth intensity between December/2011 (4.3%) and January/2012 (4.1%), and continued the downward trend started in May 2011 (7.3%).

In the comparison with the same month of the previous year, the value of the real payroll recorded an expansion of 4.4% in January 2012, the biggest gain since August 2011 (7.1%), with positive results in the 14 places surveyed. The greatest influence on the national overall was seen in Paraná (15.5%), mostly attributable to the rise in the real payroll in the sectors of food and beverages (25.8%), of transportation means (25.9%) and of communication and electric-electronic machinery and apparatus (45.7%). It is worth mentioning as well the advances seen in São Paulo (1.5%), Northeast region (7,2%), Minas Gerais (6.0%), North and Central-West regions (8.3%) and Rio de Janeiro (6.7%). In those places, the activities that mostly contributed in a positive way to the rise in the real payroll were: machinery and equipment (8.4%), basic metals (23.8%) and transportation means (1,9%), in the industry in São Paulo; food and beverages (8,2%), transportation means (47.6%), influenced by the Christmas bonus paid in advance by an important company in the sector, and paper and press (14.1%), in the northeastern industrial sector; mining and quarrying industries (18.9%), basic metals (7.0%) and communication and electric-electronic machinery and apparatus (13.8%), in the industry in Minas Gerais; food and beverages (14.9%), mining and quarrying industry (15,6%) and communication and electric-electronic machinery and apparatus (17.5%), in the North and Central-West regions; and mining and quarrying industry (7,4%) and transportation means (10.2%), in the industrial sector in Rio.

Among the sectors, concerning the monthly index, the value of the real payroll was up in 13 of the 18 sectors surveyed, with a highlight to food and beverages (8.5%), transportation means (6.2%), machinery and equipment (5.9%), basic metals (11.4%) and mining and quarrying industry (10.3%).  Conversely, footwear and leather (-7.2%), chemical products (-2.0%) and wood (-5.4%) exerted the greatest negative impact on the industry overall.