The IBGE releases today (May 31) the values of the per capita household income - PCHI and coefficients of regional imbalance - CRI related to 2018 for the North, Northeast and Central-West Regions, based on the Continuous National Household Sample Survey - Continuous PNAD. This release meets the provision of Decree no. 9,291, of February 21, 2018. Access the report here.

The CRI of each Region was calculated as the ratio between the per capita household income - PCHI of the Region and that of Brazil, according to article 1, paragraph 1, of the Decree above. Earnings from labor and other sources were taken into account in this computation. Every resident is taken into account in the computation, including those classified as pensioners, domestic workers and their relatives. The values were obtained from the gross income from labor and other sources, effectively earned in the reference month, by accruing the information of the first interviews of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th quarters of the 2018 Continuous PNAD.

The data were computed for the North, Northeast and Central-West Regions, according to article 1A, item III, limiting the CRI to one integer.

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.