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Brazil has 14.7% unemployment in the three months to April, says IBGE

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The unemployment rate in Brazil remained at 14.7% in the trimester ended April 2021, according to the Continuous National Household Sample Survey (Continuous Pnad) released Wednesday, June 30 by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).

Thus, this rate and the vacancy contingent maintain the record from the quarter ended in March, the highest in the series since 2012.

The result was in line with the Refinitiv consensus, whose projected median unemployment rate was 14.7% for the period, maintaining the March figure.

Compared with the January quarter (14.2%), the figure was 0 . . .

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