An essay on Paraná state’s rural families based on 1992, 1998, 2005 and 2007 pnad surveys

• Autor(a) principal: Bazotti, Angelita
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Nazareno, Louise Ronconi de, Cintra, Anael Pinheiro de Ulhôa
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Paranaense de Desenvolvimento (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://ipardes.emnuvens.com.br/revistaparanaense/article/view/74
• topic: Family agriculture; Agricultural ocupations; Production; Consumption; Agricultura familiar; ocupações agrícolas; produção para o próprio consumo

The present article is a preliminary analysis of rural families in The State of Paraná, in which is explored themes related to family agriculture occupations and other issues, such as production for self-consumption. Data from PNAD‘s (1992, 1998, 2005 and 2007) are used to discuss changes and trends of rural occupations. From the data, a relative stability of rural occupations is observed in family agriculture universe. The agricultural families (self employed and employer) has a diversified production. Therefore, it is confirmed, for in the periods analyzed, a traditional feature of this kind of activity – the changeability of production. Additionally, an increase in pluriactivity among families is found in estimation of year 2007, which indicates for a trend to be effectively followed by families in rural context. In another perspective, agricultural families producing for self consumption are old aged: predominantly female, depending heavily on social security programs, and growing vegetables as their main production.