2021 innovation indicators from Brazil's Semi-Annual Innovation Survey (PINTEC Semestral), conducted by IBGE in partnership with ABDI and UFRJ. The dataset covers industrial companies in Mining/Extractive and Manufacturing sectors with 100 or more employees, containing 20 tables broken down by economic activity and employment-size band. Data were restructured from IBGE's public FTP server for publication as tabular data on Dataverse.
Use Cases
- Benchmarking innovation performance across different industrial sectors based on the survey indicators.
- Analyzing the relationship between company size and innovation activity based on employment-size band breakdowns.
- Studying regional or sectoral economic development trends using the CNAE 2.0 economic activity classification.
Strengths
- Contains 20 tables of structured innovation indicators.
- Includes coefficients of variation for the reported indicators.
- Covers industrial companies with 100 or more employees, providing a focused sample.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- IBGE classifies this survey as Experimental Statistics, which may indicate provisional methodology.
Provenance
- Source
- Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), in partnership with ABDI and UFRJ.
- Collection Method
- Data were downloaded from IBGE's public FTP server using the PINTECR tool (R package) and restructured (flattened hierarchical headers, empty columns removed).
- Time Range
- 2021
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-06-23 16:54:01; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Brazil