#mercado de trabalho

The buildings of the Ministério do Trabalho e Emprego and the Ministério da Previdência Social in Brasília, pictured in January 2023.

Brazil added 121,300 formal jobs in September, 43.5% fewer than a year earlier

The headquarters of the IBGE's documentation and information centre in Rio de Janeiro, in a 2007 photograph.

Brazil's jobless rate falls to 5.2% in the third quarter, the lowest for the period since 2012, as employment hits a record 103.6 million

A child leaves the Cidade Estrutural landfill in Brazil's Federal District in February 2008. The archive photo illustrates the subject of the survey.

Household survey

Child labour in Brazil falls 9.2% to 1.499 million, the lowest level in the IBGE series

The headquarters of the IBGE's documentation and information centre in Rio de Janeiro, in 2007. The institute runs the Pnad Contínua survey.

Brazil's jobless rate falls to 5.3% and employment reaches a record 103.5 million