Brazilian Unemployment Rate was reconstructed from 1976 to recent period in a paper published in Economic Studies Review

In the following link you can download Brazilian PNAD's unemployment rate

• PNAD unemployment rate.

You can use the series freelly but it is mandatory to quote the source.

Full description of the methodologhy is discussed in the following link: Estudos Econômicos (portuguese).

Suggested citation:

Bacciotti, R.; Marçal, E. F.; Taxa de Desemprego no Brasil em quatro décadas: retropolação da PNAD contínua de 1976 a 2016; Estudos Econômicos;  USP, volume 50, number 3, pages 513-534, São Paulo, 2020.