A survey released this Wednesday, 8, by the Paraná Research Institute shows that Brazilians are more pessimistic about the country’s economic situation for this year and that the perception of rising product prices in supermarkets has increased since President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took office in January 2023.
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The survey also asked about the price of meat and the difficulty in finding a job since the beginning of the PT member’s mandate.
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For 55% of those interviewed, there has been an increase in the price of products in the supermarket since the beginning of the Lula government. The percentage is higher than in the survey carried out in January (48.4%).
Asked specifically about the price of meat, 34.1% of those interviewed said that there had been an increase since the beginning of the Lula government, but 36.3% thought that the product had become cheaper; 24.9% stated that the price of the product remained as it was.
The number of Brazilians who think that the country’s economic situation will worsen this year has increased: it went from 24.5% in January to 28.5% now. Those who think it will improve decreased from 34.7% to 31.7%.
The survey also asked about the ease or difficulty of finding a job. The number of people who think it is easier to get a job fell by 1.6 percentage points.
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However, the number of those who think it is more difficult also fell, from 29.2% to 26.3%. On the other hand, the percentage of those who think that the difficulty is the same as in the period before Lula has increased.
The Paraná Institute interviewed 2020 voters from 160 municipalities in the 26 States and the District
Federal. The survey’s confidence level is 95% and the estimated margin of error is 2.2 percentage points.
