Monthly Employment Survey (PME)
The PME began in 1980 and aimed to produce monthly indicators on the workforce of people aged 10 or over, in six Brazilian Metropolitan Areas (Recife, Salvador, Belo Horizonte, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Porto Alegre, which allowed for the assessment of medium- and long-term fluctuations and trends in the metropolitan labour market. The PME employed a rotation scheme of households, where a given household remained in the sample for four consecutive months, was removed from the sample during the following eight-month interval and returned for another four months. Approximately 44,000 households were interviewed per month. The PME ended in March 2016 and was replaced by the Continuous National Household Sample Survey (CNHSS), also known as the Continuous PNAD.
Study design
Household panel, Community or village panel
Number of participants at first data collection
~ 44,000 (monthly households)
Age at first data collection
≥ 10 years (participants)
Participant year of birth
Varied (participants)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
Households in Recife, Salvador, Belo Horizonte, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Sample features
Country
Year of first data collection
1980
Primary Institutions
Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística, IBGE)
Profile paper DOI
Not available
Funders
Federal Government of Brazil (Governo Federal)
Ongoing?
No
Data types collected
- Interview – face-to-face
- None
- None
- None
Engagement
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