The Labor Market as Reflected by the Monthly Version of the National Household Survey (PNAD)

BRAZIL ECONOMICS - Report 16 Mar 2015 by Affonso Pastore, Cristina Pinotti and Marcelo Gazzano

In various previous reports we measured the labor market situation using data from the Monthly Employment Survey (PME), which is restricted to six metropolitan regions. The other source of job market data produced by the IBGE is the National Household Survey (PNAD), which now has a monthly version of the Continuous PNAD. It has national coverage and provides data on the occupied population, labor force, working age population and wage income. The most recent sounding, published last week, refers to January, but despite the “monthly” nomenclature, it also includes information on November and December 2014. What do these figures reveal?

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