PROFILE OF BENEFICIARIES OF THE BOLSA FAMÍLIA PROGRAM IN THE URBAN AND RURAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE LARGE BRAZILIAN REGIONS ACCORDING TO THE 2019 CONTINUOUS PNAD

Abstract

The 1990s were marked by conditional income transfer initiatives, which emerged with the aim of bringing immediate relief from extreme poverty. As a result of the conditionalities, poor families began to access education and health services. In 2003, the Bolsa Família Program (PBF) was implemented, which has established itself as the main national income transfer policy. Thinking about the contributions of the PBF in recent years to the reduction of poverty and extreme poverty, the main objective of this article was to analyze the profile of the program's beneficiaries through data from the Continuous National Household Sample Survey (PNADC) from IBGE, 2019. From the results it can be seen that the Northeast concentrates 51.5% of PBF beneficiaries. The result is not surprising, as the region is considered one of the poorest in the country. Regarding who is responsible for receiving the benefit, the data shows that the majority are women, 91.9% in urban areas and 89.9% in rural areas, which shows that the program actually transfers the amounts preferentially to women. Another highlight is the average number of beneficiaries per household, which was 3.97.