The latest data on employment in the region studied are from Sample Work and Income for the 2000 census, specifically information on persons 10 years or older, total economically active and occupied during the reference week by sex and status home, plus the information of people over10 years employed in the reference week section of the main work activity. The municipal data were compared with data for states and Brazil, to check how it behaves a local analysis in the face of more comprehensive data.
In Brazil, the largest of 10 years, 56.58% is reported in the IBGE research as being economically active population (PEA), formally employed or not. This situation is repeated with little variation in the four states included in the study area, the largest discrepancy occurred in Maranhão, in the order of -5.9%. In turn, the verification of PEA in the cities is much more variable, with a range of values of 32.73% between the highest labor force in the municipality of Rio da Conceição (TO), with 63.48% of the population over 10 economically active years, and the lowest labor force in the municipality of Lagoa do Tocantins (TO) with 30.74%.
