Relationship between mineral extraction, oil extraction, and agribusiness with employability, municipal gross domestic product, and voting data in Brazil

This dataset looks at the number of Brazilian municipalities where mining is a key economic activity and those where mining is a key job provider. We also listed municipalities that have mining as both a main economic activity and the main employer in a given town. We have also generated maps to visualize the impact of mining in Brazil as a key economic activity and/or job provider. Similarly, we have listed the same information for all the municipalities that received oil royalties in 2019, and the top 100 municipalities whose wealth was mainly generated by agribusiness in 2022. By detailing the economic and employment situation in Brazilian extractive municipalities (mining, oil, and crops), we demonstrate that company towns in Brazil (locations that are highly dependent on one key economic activity for employment generation) are few. Extractive industries may no longer be labour intensive, although economic dependency may follow indirectly, such as because of tax generation. We also ..., The first resource used to collect the data presented here is the Annual List of Social Information – RAIS database – which provides information on employment and companies. RAIS contains social information about each employee of a given firm, such as salary, race, gender, and length of employment. This data must be provided annually by every company based in Brazil. According to the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, every establishment must provide, through the Annual Social Information List (RAIS), information regarding each of its employees, in accordance with Decree No. 10,854, of November 10, 2021. Each line in the RAIS represents a single firm. It contains information such as the number of employees per firm, the address of the firm, and the National Classification of Economic Activities (CNAE 2.0). For the year 2020, the database contains 8,196,730 lines, from all Brazilian companies that delivered information to the annual RAIS. The CNAE is a categorization system that ide..., , # Redefining Company Towns in Brazil

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This dataset compiles information about economic activities, voting behaviour, and resource extraction in Brazilian municipalities.

**Description of the file structure and contents:**

Variables description:

Code: The IBGE code for municipalities is a numerical identification assigned by IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) to each municipality in Brazil. This code is used for various purposes, such as geographic identification, organisation of statistical data, and administrative registries, among others. Each Brazilian municipality has a unique digit code assigned by IBGE. It’s worth noting that all municipalities within the same state share the same first two digits in their IBGE codes.

Municipality: is the city’s name. 

Federal Unit: Brazil is a federation made up of 27 states. This is the acronym for eac...