May 14, 2022

10:05

Priscilla Peixoto – Cenarium Magazine

MANAUS – The data from the continuous National Household Sample Survey (PNAD), released this Friday, 13, by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), point out that the State of Amapá is the only one in the country that presents a real drop in the unemployment rate, in relation to the calculation of the unemployment rate for the 1st quarter of 2022.

The state went from 17.5% in the fourth quarter of 2021 to 14.2% in the first quarter of this year, resulting in a reduction of 3.3 percentage points. According to the survey, all other states remained stable in relation to the national average of 11.1%.

But it is worth pointing out that, although the region has reduced the unemployment rate, the reduction does not mean the direct creation of new jobs. The IBGE even informs that in December 2021 there were 419 thousand employed Amapa people against 388 thousand in March this year.

“This drop, however, is not due to the increase in the number of occupied people, but the lower pressure of people without work seeking occupation in the state. There was a drop of 7.3% in the number of people in the labor force and an increase of 10.4% in the contingent outside the force,” states the coordinator of Work and Income of IBGE, Adriana Beringuy to the official page of the Institute.

Other IBGE data

Among the information, there is the so-called “unemployed”, (people above 14 years of age who for some reason have given up looking for a job) in this case, the rate went from 19 to 24 thousand, a rise of 25%. Among those who are on the list of “out of the labor force,” the index shows a growth from 258,000 to 285,000, 10.4%.

The state also has the highest proportion of self-employed workers, 35.9%, exceeding the national average of 26.5%. In the 4th quarter of 2021, people employed in the private sector with a signed contract totaled 71 thousand, in the first quarter of this year, it went up to 76 thousand employees in this format.

Percentages

According to the survey, the highest rates of unemployment were found in the states of Bahia 17.6%, Pernambuco 17.0%, and Rio de Janeiro 14.9%. The lowest are in Santa Catarina 4.5%, Mato Grosso 5.3% and Mato Grosso do Sul 6.5%.

The highest rates of self-employed workers are in the Northern region of Brazil. Besides Amapa, there is Amazonas with 35,7%, Para 34,6% and Rondonia 32,4%. Pará also has the highest percentage of informal workers with 62.9%. The North and Northeast also have the highest percentage rates of these professional categories.

The Southeast and Center-West regions show the highest participation of the employed categories with 69.7% and 71.0%, respectively. In relation to the number of occupied people, the IBGE Agency highlights: “The number of occupied people in the country was 95.3 million, composed of 67.1% employees, 4.3% of employers, 26.5% of self-employed people and 2.0% of auxiliary family workers”, it informs.

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