PINTEC Semestral 2022: Brazilian Industrial Innovation Indicators

Brazilian industrial innovation indicators from the 2022 Semi-Annual Innovation Survey (PINTEC Semestral) conducted by IBGE. The dataset contains 108 tables covering industrial companies in mining/extractive and manufacturing sectors with 100 or more employees, with a thematic module on digital transformation. Data were restructured from IBGE spreadsheets and published as tabular data on Dataverse.

Use Cases

• Benchmark digital technology adoption (e.g., AI, IoT) across industrial sectors based on the survey's thematic module.
• Analyze innovation trends by company size based on the employment-size band breakdown.
• Assess the relationship between economic activity (CNAE 2.0) and innovation indicators.
• Study the implementation of telework and digital information security practices in Brazilian industry.

Strengths

• Contains 108 separate tables of indicator data.
• Includes coefficients of variation for statistical reliability assessment.
• Covers industrial companies with 100 or more employees, providing a focused sample.
• Data sourced directly from IBGE's official survey and processed for tabular use.

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, indicating potential methodological evolution.

Provenance

Source

Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), in partnership with ABDI and UFRJ.

Collection Method

Data collected via the Semi-Annual Innovation Survey (PINTEC Semestral), downloaded from IBGE's public FTP server using the PINTECR R package, and restructured for publication.

Time Range

2022

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-20 19:48:10; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Brazil