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Unemployment in Brazil remained unchanged in October at 9.6% compared to the previous month, according to an official release.
Analysts had forecasted unemployment to range between 9.3% and 9.6%. October 2004 unemployment was 10,5%.
Normally in Brazil towards the end of the year employment increases as companies and businesses prepare for the Christmas season additional demand.
The Brazilian statistics office works with numbers from urban employment in the country's six largest cities, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Belo Horizonte, Recife and Porto Alegre.
However it does include those partially employed or working in the informal sector, which in Brazilian cities is considerable. Besides, workers who did not seek for employment the month before the poll are not included as unemployed.
More specifically in metropolitan São Paulo, Brazil's major manufacturing hub, unemployment remained steady at 16.9% in October, according to a poll from the private organizations Seade Foundation and the Statistics and Socio-Economic Studies Inter labor unions Department.
Given the region's labor force this means that 1.7 million Brazilians were unemployed during last October.
Furthermore, the average take home September salary, paid in early October, in metropolitan São Paulo was 1,017 reais equivalent to approximately, US$ 465, which is 1% below the previous month, breaking a steady surge that had began last February. This article appeared originally in Mercopress – www.mercopress.com.
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