Brasília – The Family Expectation Index (IEF) on social and economic performance in Brazil over the next 12 months remains high, despite the slight drop as against April, according to a research disclosed on Wednesday (16) by the Applied Economic Research Institute (Ipea).
Developed last week, with 3,810 people of all regions of the country, the research shows that the IEF dropped from 67.7 points to 67 points from March to April. But, despite the reduction, Ipea technicians conclude that Brazilians maintain the optimism verified since April 2011. Family optimism peaked at 69 points, in January. Points above 60 are considered optimism.
Expectations for the country future and for family wellbeing have shown contradictory results in the analysis by region, both in the short term (12 months) and in the long term (five years). In the North, for example, there were reductions from 77 to 69 points in the short run and from 46.3 to 45 points in the long run, whereas the South presented 4.5 percentage point growth in both periods.
One of the main aspects measured in the Ipea research is the minimum value of family monthly debt, which reached R$ 5,581.83 in April, against R$ 5,414.52 in the same month last year. The figures show that the economic situation of families presented negative rates in all great regions of the country, when comparing April to March.
*Translated by Mark Ament
