People with disabilities live with 3% lower income and less access to work in Acre, says IBGE

An IBGE survey released this Friday (18) shows that people with disabilities in Acre have 3.5% lower income and face more barriers in the job market.

In 2022, the state had 59 thousand people with disabilities. The per capita household income of their households is R$1,047, compared to R$1,087 for the others.

Occupancy rate for this group is 31.6% in Acre.

People with disabilities (PCDs) face more difficulties in accessing the job market and have an income that is approximately 3.5% lower than people without disabilities, according to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).

According to the survey, while the per capita household income in homes with people with disabilities is, on average, R$1,047 per month, those without disabilities have an average income of R$1,087.

The data is part of the information People with Disabilities and Social Inequalities in Brazil, released this Friday (18) by the institute.

The barriers faced by people with disabilities to enter the job market also appear in the occupation level, which measures the proportion of people of working age who actually have an occupation.

While the rate was 48.9% among people without disabilities, it reached 31.6% among PWDs, a difference of 17.3 percentage points.

In 2022, Acre had around 59 thousand people with disabilities, equivalent to 7.3% of the population aged 2 years or over, according to the survey.

On the national scene, the difference is even greater: employment is 29% among PWDs, while the rate among people without disabilities was 55.8%.

The institute's data also show that, when considering all sources of income, income from work has a smaller share in the budget of families that have people with disabilities than those without residents with this condition.

According to Luanda Chaves Botelho, responsible for the Coordination of Population and Social Indicators (Copis) at IBGE, the population with disabilities faces a series of barriers in the job market.

"We have a sequence of obstacles that arise [for people with disabilities]. In addition to the barrier of obtaining an occupation, these occupations are worse, with lower contributions to Social Security and fewer social protection rights", he explains.

According to the IBGE, people with disabilities are proportionally more concentrated in activities with lower average income, such as domestic services, agriculture and accommodation and food, for example.