Custo de vida comparativo das regiões metropolitanas brasileiras: 1996-2014

Abstract

We compute cost of living levels for 11 Brazilian metropolitan regions in the period 1996-2014. We apply the Country Product Dummy (CPD) method to data from the household expenditure surveys of 1996, 2003 and 2009. We calculate the levels for these years, and use data from regional price indexes to interpolate the results for years in-between. The results indicate that Brasilia, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro are the most expensive metropolitan areas, and Goiânia presented the largest growth.