The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) facilitated the search for information on the labor market, population, education and access to TV, internet and cell phones, investigated by the Continuous National Household Sample Survey (Pnad). The data are available on the Pnad Contínua Interactive Panel, prepared in partnership with the International Labor Organization (ILO).
The launch took place today (4), at the Ministry of Economy, in Brasília. For the first time, experimental indicators will also be available for 146 geographic strata, such as Baixada Santista, Agreste da Paraíba, the South Coast of Bahia and the North of Minas Gerais. This information was not disclosed by the survey.
The user can now browse 24 indicators selected from the entire historical series of Pnad Contínua, which began in 2012. They contain data on occupation, unemployment and the population contingent, among others, which are usually published in the quarterly edition of the survey. Another important information that can be accessed is illiteracy and schooling rates. Through the panel, it is also possible to know, more easily, the total number of households with television, cell phone and internet access, calculated by the annual version.
For IBGE Geoinformation Production Integration Manager, Aline Lopes Coelho, this volume of information has been disseminated through publications and Sidra – the agency’s statistical table database – but now, it will be available in a more intuitive and direct way. “Disclosure in the form of an interactive panel facilitates the consumption of information through different geographical sections, showing the evolution of indicators over time and their distribution in territorial space, through interactive graphs and maps.”
geographic strata
The panel also represents the expansion of knowledge, since in addition to bringing geographic strata with already known clippings, such as large regions, federation units, metropolitan regions and capitals, it provides indicators by geographic strata. They allow an analysis of smaller cuts, in addition to metropolitan regions and capitals.
“The creation of geographic strata is in line with the institute’s initiative to enhance and encourage the use of different sections for the production and dissemination of research, becoming even more relevant when considering the significant socio-spatial heterogeneity existing within each of the federative units. ”, said the coordinator of Work and Income at IBGE, Adriana Beringuy.
As an example, if you want to browse the map of the state of Minas Gerais, you will see that the unemployment rate of the geographic stratum relative to the north of the state was 13.2% in the 4th quarter of 2019. In the South of Minas, however, no went from 7.6%. In the same period, the unemployment rate in the entire state of Minas Gerais reached 9.6%.
The Director of Research at IBGE, Cimar Azeredo, informed that the most recent data on the geographic strata of the panel are from 2019. In the years 2020 and 2021, the pandemic caused effects on the collection of Pnad Contínua, which reached the response rate and the disclosure of some indicators.
Cimar Azeredo highlighted that for the first time a household survey goes beyond the limit of the city of the capital and reaches the data that are on the panel. “These strata enhance the analysis of regional data, because they penetrate the states and show, with smaller geographic clippings, the potential of the job market and other characteristics of the households. It’s a very big step forward. We are at a historic moment.”
In the view of the president of the IBGE, Eduardo Rios Neto, the new strata meet a demand from the public administration, especially from the state planning bodies, which requested interstate statistics, but faced the high costs of carrying out state household surveys. “The research community will also find a new source for analyzing economic dynamics in space.”
The president stated that when the project to disseminate regional strata, now included in the Panel, was presented by Cimar Azeredo in 2019, it came to be called pyrotechnics. “If this is pyrotechnics, we are here today on the Disney wall with all the fireworks. Let’s see if this is pyrotechnics or real. We are showing here how serious the IBGE is”.
data crossing
Those interested can also cross-reference information with the various products of the IBGE Geosciences Directorate, since the Continuous PNAD Panel is integrated into the Interactive Geographic Platform (PGI). To do so, you just need to click on the symbol that represents an eye, on the panel map, and you will have access to the data linked to the PGI. In this case, among other functions, it will be possible to compare information on the labor market with the displacement of the population by the municipalities, calculated by the research Regions of Influence of Cities (Regic).
The head of the Special Advisory for Strategic Affairs of the Ministry of Economy, Adolfo Sachsida, shortly participating in the launch, highlighted the importance of the work carried out by the institute, mainly for the elaboration of public policies developed based on data from the agency. “This here is one of the most fantastic things there is. I never get tired of praising the IBGE. During the pandemic, Pnad Covid-19 was the basis of several of our studies to support public policies”.
Partnership
The coordinator of Knowledge Generation for the Promotion of Decent Work, from the ILO office in Brazil, José Ribeiro, said that next week, in partnership with the IBGE, the Continuous PNAD Panel – Decent Work, developed by the Geosciences Directorate with support from the Research and Information Technology Departments to improve data visualization.
“Based on data from Pnad Contínua, the ILO developed several strategic products aimed at expanding the knowledge base on Decent Work in the country with the aim of providing subsidies for the elaboration of policies and actions to promote the initiative, including in sub-spaces of the federation units”, said Ribeiro.
The Continuous PNAD Panel – Decent Work, which can be consulted as of May 11 at the site of the ILO Brazil, will have 18 indicators and information such as the employed population, income of the employed, working hours and unemployment and formalities rates.
Continuous PNAD
According to the IBGE, Pnad Contínua produces information on the insertion of the population in the labor market according to demographic and educational characteristics. “It also generates annual results, intended for the study of the country’s socioeconomic development, on topics such as child labor and other forms of work, personal care and household chores, information and communication technology and other relevant aspects selected according to information needs. ” he explained.
“The survey is carried out through a probabilistic sample of households, extracted from a master presentation of census sectors, in order to guarantee the representativeness of the results for the different geographical areas in which the survey is produced”.
About 211 thousand Brazilian households are analyzed by Pnad Contínua every quarter. Since its implementation, it has gradually expanded the indicators and established itself as the main household survey in the country.
