Unemployment fell in 22 of the 27 states in the second quarter of 2022, compared to the previous quarter, the IBGE said on Friday (12). The other five states were stable in the period, according to the Quarterly Continuous National Household Sample Survey (PNAD).
The movement reflects the generalized drop in the unemployment rate in the last year, which, from April to June, was 9.3%, a drop of 1.8 percentage points (pp) compared to the first quarter of the year (11.1% ).
The biggest drop was in Pernambuco, with a drop of 3.5 pp in the quarterly comparison. Then come Tocantins, Alagoas, Pará, Piauí and Acre, with drops of around 3 pp.
At higher unemployment rates were from Bahia (15.5%), Pernambuco (13.6%) and Sergipe (12.7%), and the smallest from Santa Catarina (3.9%), Mato Grosso (4.4%) and Mato Grosso do Sul (5.2%).
At annual comparison, all 27 federative units had a “significant drop in unemployment rate,” the institute said. The national index was at 14.2% a year ago.
The highest rates of informality were registered in Pará (61.8%), Maranhão (59.4%) and Amazonas (57.7%). The smallest were Santa Catarina (27.2%), São Paulo (31.1%) and Federal District (31.2%). The general rate in Brazil is 40%.
Santa Catarina also has the highest rate of workers with a formal contract in the private sector, with 87.4%, followed by São Paulo (81.0%) and Paraná (80.9%). The smallest are from Piauí (46.6%), Maranhão (47.8%) and Pará (51.0%). In Brazil, in general, 73.3% of employees in the private sector had a formal contract in the second quarter.
By region, the lowest rates are in the North (58.4%) and Northeast (56.8%) with the lowest rates. Among domestic workers, 25.1% had a formal contract in the country.
Yield remains stable in all regions in the quarter
Estimated at R$2,652, the average real monthly income was stable from the first to the second quarter of the year.
In comparison with the second quarter of 2021, when it was R$ 2,794, however, the value fell by 5.1%. By this comparison, the regions with the biggest drops are the Northeast, South and Southeast.
Gender, color and education
The unemployment rate by gender was 11.6% for women in the second Tristre compared to 7.5% for men.
The unemployment rate by color or race was 11.3% for blacks, browns, 10.8% and 7.3% for whites, below the national average (9.3%).
The unemployment rate for people with incomplete secondary education (15.3%) was higher than the rates for the other levels of education analyzed.
For people with incomplete higher education, the rate was 9.9%, more than double the rate for people with complete higher education (4.7%).
Source: CNN Brasil
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