This paper aims to describe recent changes in the characteristics and living conditions of four income groups - extremely poor, poor, vulnerable and non-poor - in the state of Bahia between 2004 and 2009. We investigate the size of each group; their distribution between urban and rural areas;...

This text investigates, for 2004 and 2009, the characteristics and living conditions of four demographic categories defined by household per capita income values. These are the extreme poor (those whose per capita incomes were less than R$ 67 in 2009), the poor (between R$ 67 and R$ 134), the...

This text describes in detail how to simulate the poverty impacts of changes in the entitlement rules and benefit values of the Bolsa Família Program. This simulation is especially challenging due to: i) the absence of a specific question on Bolsa Família income in the PNAD household survey...

This text investigates, for 2004 and 2009, the characteristics and living conditions of four demographic categories defined by household per capita income values. These are the extreme poor (those whose per capita incomes were less than R$ 67 in 2009), the poor (between R$ 67 and R$ 134), the...

O objetivo deste texto é documentar mudanças nas características e condições de vida de quatro estratos de renda - extremamente pobres, pobres, vulneráveis e não pobres - na Bahia entre 2004 e 2009. Os aspectos abordados incluem o tamanho dos estratos; a distribuição entre áreas...

Este trabalho investiga, para os anos 2004 e 2009, as características e as condições de vida dos extremamente pobres (famílias de renda domiciliar per capita menor que R$ 67 em 2009), dos pobres (renda entre R$ 67 e R$ 134), dos vulneráveis à pobreza (R$ 134 a $ 465) e dos não pobres...

We examine how inequality measures, data sources, income brackets, ranking variables of tabulated tax data, underestimation of incomes in the bottom of the distribution and the methodology used to correct inequality affects the trends of inequality in total income among adults in Brazil between...

Using a factor decomposition of the Gini coefficient we measure the contribution to inequality of direct monetary income flows to and from the Brazilian State. The income flows from the State include public servants' earnings, Social Security pensions, unemployment benefits and Social Assistance...