The price of the basic food basket in September fell in 13 of the 18 cities surveyed by the Inter-union Department of statistics and socioeconomic studies (Dieese).
Research has shown that the biggest falls occurred in Bethlehem ( -4.56%), Fortress ( -3.88%), Recife ( -3.50%) and Goiânia ( -2.96%). The high were recorded in Belo Horizonte (0.23%), Curitiba (0.44%), Rio de Janeiro (0.74%), Victoria (0.99%) and Florianópolis (2.77%).
Between October and September 2014 2015, all cities have accumulated high in the basket price, which ranged from 4.70% in Recife and Aracaju 20.19%.
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The situation is the same in the nine first months of 2015, with all cities showing increases. The greatest variation occurred in the cities of Aracaju (14.07%) and Curitiba (12.88%).
Porto Alegre is singled out as the capital with the most expensive basket: $ 385,70. The city was used for research as a reference for calculating the required minimum wage, according to Dieese, to defray the costs of a worker and his family with food, housing, health, education, clothing, hygiene, transportation, recreation and welfare.
In September 2015, the ideal value presented was $ 3,240 .27, or 4.22 times the current minimum wage of r $ 788. In September 2014, was $ 2,862 .73, corresponding to 3.95 times the previous minimum wage of R $ 724.
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