A investigação do rendimento na PNAD : comentários e sugestões à pesquisa nos anos 2000

Since 1967, when the National Household Survey (PNAD) was created, the investigation of income has been through a series of changes so as to obtain the value of different components of personal income more accurately and thoroughly. Based on the PNAD as it is designed today, this article is aimed at evaluating conceptual and methodological questions involved in the investigation of income items, and to suggest some changes that, if contemplated during the coming survey reform, could improve the income information obtained. To restrict our object, we have taken for granted that the survey will maintain its basic characteristic, that is, it will take place only once a year, having September as its month of reference.