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Geographic names identify places and let us know about their history
A landscape formed by several geographic features and the names used to identify them - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency Streets with uneven paving, made of stones*, and the colonial houses of the historical center of Paraty, a municipality in the south of Rio de Janeiro state, were the background...
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10.3 million persons live in households with severe food insecurity
More than half of households with severe food insecurity were headed by women - Photo: Tony Winston/Agência Brasília Severe food insecurity was present in the home of 10.3 million Brazilians at least for some time between 2017 and 2018. Of the 68.9 million households in the country, 36.7% had some level...
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Automotive sector contributes to production growth in São Paulo
Driven by the automotive sector, the industrial production in São Paulo grew 14.8% in the comparison between April this year and the same month of 2017, according to the data of the Monthly Survey of Industry (PIM) - Regional Production, released today by the IBGE. The state was one of the 13 places...
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Fuels boost forecast of August's inflation
The Extended National Consumer Price Index 15 (IPCA-15) had a change of 0.35% in August, the second biggest result of the year, just behind February (0.54%), and well above July (-0.18%). The sector of Transportation recorded the highest increase, advancing 1.35% and 0.24 percentage points of influence...
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Infrastructure works lose share in sector in 10 years
The share of infrastructure works in civil construction strongly dropped between 2007 and 2016, changing from 41.3% to 29.5% of the value added. As the investments in public works decelerated, building construction and specialized services increased. These data are in the Annual Survey of Construction...
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Inflation speeds up and stands at 0.43% in February
Food products exerted the highest pressure on the national index, but were down in comparison with January - Photo: Eduardo Peret/IBGE News Agency The Extended National Consumer Price Index (IPCA), which measures official inflation in the country, stood at 0.43% in February, above the 0.32% result of...
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Drop in Food and Lodging contributes to low August in services
The only activity down in August in the comparison with July, the sector of services rendered to families (-4.8%) was mainly to blame for the 1% drop registered in the Monthly Survey of Services (PMS), released today by the IBGE. The segment had been having a three-consecutive-month period of highs,...
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Fuels and food products have an impact on October inflation preview
The inflation preview (IPCA-15), released today by the IBGE, rose from 0.09% in September to 0.58% in October. The groups Transportation (1.65%) and food products (0.44%) accounted for the acceleration of the IPCA-15, and accounted for about 70% of the monthly index. The cumulative index reached 3.83%...
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Services sector closes February at -0.4% and accumulates second drop in a row
Air transportation of passengers led to sector's decrease - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency Having grown 0.8% in December, the service sector fell for the second consecutive time in February (-0.4%), in comparison with January. The result offset the gain at the end of 2018, since January had...
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Labor market challenges fuel debate on rights
One of the most important topics of the Federal Constitution which became 30 years old in 2018, the right to quality jobs is addressed in several parts of the Brazilian Charta. The relevance is such that one of the most discussed issues nowadays is the labor reform. Today the challenge is to keep the...
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Birth reports fall for the first time since 2010
Birth reports in Brazil amounted to 2.79 million in 2016, with a decrease of 5.1% in relation to 2015 figure, 2.95 million. That is the first reduction observed since 2010, even below the 2011 result, 2.80 million. Among the states, Roraima recorded a slight increase of 3.9%, as reported today by the...
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São Paulo leads decrease of industrial output in August
The decrease of 0.9% in the industrial output in São Paulo was the main influence towards the decrease of 0.3% in the sector between July and August this year, according to data from the National Survey of Industry – Regional Production (Regional PIM-PF), released today by the IBGE. Against August 2017,...
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Electricity bill doubles inflation in May
Influenced by the increase in the electricity bills, the May inflation reached 0.31%, more than doubling the rate of April (0.14%). Bereft of the discount applied in April, which offset the improper charge of the Charge of Reserve Power - EER, the electricity bills rose 8.98% in May, accounting for 0.29...
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Transportation recovers in 2017, only segment of services to grow in the year
Even dropping 2.8% in volume of the services sector in 2017, the segment of transportation recovered and grew 2.3% in the year, the first rise since 2014. The data came from the Monthly Survey of Services - PMS, released today by the IBGE, which also pointed out a positive change of 0.5% between November...
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Automotive sector leads to first increase of industrial output in three years
Industrial output closed year 2017 with an increase of 2.5% against the 2016 figure. That is the first annual positive result since 2013, when there was a hike of 2.1%, the biggest increase since 2010, year of the record figure of 10.2% in the time series that started in 2002. There was a change of 2.8%...
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Slaughter of hogs and pigs increases 2.4%, hits record in 2018
Nearly two thirds of the slaughter of hogs and pigs took place in the South - Photo: Pedro Vidal/IBGE News Agency The amount of hogs and pigs slaughtered in Brazil hit 44.2 million last year, a rise of 2.4% in relation to 2017 and the highest figure in the time series started in 1997. The most significant...
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[Retratos] Frontiers of rural Amazon
The reality of the agricultural establishments located in the rural Amazon will be also portrayed in the Census of Agriculture 2017, carried out by the IBGE. Data collection began in October this year and should last up to February 2018. Yet, where does the Amazon begin and end? One way to look at this...
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Number of workers behind the wheel grows 29.2%, the series' highest rise
Workers in vehicles are 3.6 million, 810 thousand persons more over 2017 - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency The population working in vehicles, such as application drivers, taxi drivers, and bus drivers and ticket collectors, increased by 29.2% in 2018 to 3.6 million, with 810,000 more people...
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Fathers share responsibilities in shared custody of children
Every month Lara spends 15 days with her father, psychologist Tiago Ferreira - Photo: Rita Martins/IBGE News Agency Under the careful view of her father, psychologist Tiago Ferreira, little Lara Kali, 7 years old, hurry up to tie the laces of her skates to enjoy the sunny holiday in a park in Salvador....
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Industrial output drops after rising four months
The industrial output declined 0.8% in August over July, after registering a cumulative increase of 3.3% in the four immediately previous months. The sector of food products decreased 5.5% and contributed the most for the drop in the index, after three consecutive months of growth, followed by machinery...