12 Aug 2014.
In a rapid recovery following the financial crisis, Brazil's GDP growth rate popped up to very high and unsustainable levels, and has declined to much lower levels since. The compound annual growth rate since 1997 has been about 2.9%, with the latest year showing growth of 1.9%.
The National Accounts are kept by IBGE (“Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística”). The web site has a number of high level pages in English, but is mostly in Portuguese when one gets down to any level of detail.
Selected commentary:
Undated; accessed 1 Sep 2012. IBGE.
“System of Quarterly National Accounts (reference 2000)
Quarterly National Accounts
Presents the current values and the quarterly volume indexes (1995=100) for the Gross Domestic Product at market prices, excise tax, value added at basic prices, personal consumption, government consumption, gross fixed capital formation, stock change, exports and imports of goods and services. Two series of index numbers are calculated: based on the previous year and linked with reference to 2000 (1995 = 100). The linked series is adjusted seasonally by X12-ARIMA making it possible to calculate the change rates in relation to the immediately previous quarter.
In IBGE, the survey was started in 1988 and restructured since 1998, when its current results were integrated to the System of National Accounts, of annual periodicity.
In 2007, continuing with the compatibility of the annual system, the Quarterly National Accounts were also reformulated, changing to reference 2000.
The annual weights are obtained through this new system of accounts.”