Rio at the turn of the century: from the 1991 Census to the 2006 PNAD

Abstract

Between 1991 and 2006, the City of Rio de Janeiro underwent significant changes that reflect, in addition to the general socioeconomic conditions shared with other Brazilian municipalities, specific dynamics, to some extent influenced by federal, state, and municipal public policies. The choice of this period as the basis for this study is not due to any historical or institutional milestone, but rather, as explained below, to the existence of comparable data. However, one singular fact— which may also have influenced the behavior of local statistics— warrants mention: for at least ten of these sixteen years, the city had the same leader, a rare occurrence in the historical political landscape of Brazil's major urban centers.