This article examines definitions, characteristics of the survey process, special cases such as incest and polygamy and the consistency of data on household arrangements collected by the Brazilian National Household Surveys (PNAD) between 1992 and 1999. The main conclusion is that PNAD’s data...

This paper aims at exploring a data set related to Brazilian Higher Education Census for the years of 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998 as well as data from the Coordination for Higher Education Personnel Improvement (Capes) concerning master and doctoral degrees activities. The data are explored in the...

In the nineties, after more than a decade of data collection, PNAD's basic questionnaire included systematic data collection on migration. Nevertheless, scholars and specially demographers have seldom explored this data source. This paper is part of a major evaluation project of PNAD in the...

The objective of this work is to make a follow up of the current use and of the possibilities of National Household Sample Survey (PNADs) for the rural areas. The text highlights the instrumental power that only the PNADs has for the analysis of the new emergent rurality in Brazil. Important...