What DIEESE does

DIEESE (Departamento Intersindical de Estatística e Estudos Socioeconômicos) is a Brazilian non-profit socioeconomic research and advisory institution founded in 1955 by the Brazilian trade union movement. Headquartered in São Paulo, it serves more than 700 affiliated trade union entities (confederations, federations, and category unions) plus government and international partners, conducting labor market research and providing technical advisory for collective bargaining, wage negotiation, public policy, and union capacity building. Its core technology stack centers on proprietary longitudinal databases and indices: ICV (Cost of Living Index for São Paulo since 1955), PNCBA (National Staple Food Basket across 26 capitals plus the Federal District since 1959), PED (Employment and Unemployment Research since 1985), SAIS-DIEESE (Trade Union Information System tracking wages, collective bargaining agreements, and strikes since the 1980s), and ICT-DIEESE (Working Conditions Index). Distribution is executed through a national headquarters, 17 regional offices across 18 Brazilian states plus researchers in 9 additional states, approximately 50 embedded subsections inside union entities, and digital channels including the Negociando mobile application, an open-access publication portal, podcasts, and active social media accounts on TikTok, Spotify, YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram, and others.

The organization generates revenue primarily through recurring membership contributions from 700+ affiliated unions, supplemented by project-based grants from Brazilian federal and state ministries (Labor and Employment, Health, Women), international organizations (ILO, UNDP, FAO), and development banks (BNDES, IDB), plus an institutional development donation campaign and tuition revenue from the wholly owned Escola DIEESE de Ciências do Trabalho, which delivers an undergraduate Labor Science degree, postgraduate programs in Economy and Labor (distance learning), and over 500 hours of extension courses for union leaders. No public-facing API, software development kit, or AI/ML components are described in the available material; products are built on traditional statistical survey methodology, household budget research frameworks, and human-authored technical analysis. The organization is non-listed, not privately held in the conventional sense, and has no parent company or external investors.

Name

DIEESE

Legal name

Departamento Intersindical de Estatística e Estudos Socioeconômicos

Website

https://dieese.org.br

Company type

Private

Founded year

1955

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

DIEESE is a Brazilian non-profit founded in 1955 that produces socioeconomic research and labor market indices for the country's trade union movement. It serves 700+ affiliated unions, plus government and international partners, through cost-of-living, employment, and collective bargaining data plus advisory and training services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Labor Market Research and Advisory Services

NAICS

Business Associations (813910), Marketing Research and Public Opinion Polling (54191)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Workforce Data, Labor Market Intelligence (LMI) & Program Evaluation (EDAAAOAN)

akta.pro secondary industries

Due Diligence & Investigative Research (BPAHALAI), Public Workforce Development Programs (WIOA/One-Stop Career Centers) (EDAAAOAA)

Keywords

• Labor market research
• Collective bargaining support
• Trade union advisory
• Cost of living index
• Employment statistics

Headquarters

HQ city

São Paulo

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices17 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Affiliated Union Contributions: DIEESE is primarily funded through contributions from affiliated trade unions. Over 700 union entities (confederations, federations, and main trade unions) pay membership fees and contribute to the organization's operational funding. This represents the core institutional support.
2. Government Project Funding: DIEESE receives project-based funding from various government entities including Ministry of Labor and Employment, Ministry of Health, state governments, and municipal governments for specific research, training, and public policy studies. Partnerships with agencies like FAT, BNDES, and international organizations fund specific projects.
3. Institutional Development Fund Donations: DIEESE maintains a permanent fundraising campaign for institutional development through donations from individuals and entities who wish to support worker-focused knowledge production. Donations processed via bank deposit, boleto, or credit card.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

DIEESE produces permanent socioeconomic research indices and databases covering employment, cost of living, food prices, and collective bargaining in Brazil, and delivers advisory and training services to affiliated trade unions. It also runs the DIEESE School of Labor Sciences and embedded subsections that support wage negotiations and labor policy analysis. The organization's work is sold or made available to trade union confederations, individual unions, government entities, and international organizations.

Product overview

DIEESE operates as a non-profit socioeconomic research and advisory institution for the Brazilian trade union movement. Its core offering consists of a portfolio of permanent research indices and databases — the Pesquisa de Emprego e Desemprego (PED), Pesquisa Nacional da Cesta Básica de Alimentos (PNCBA), Índice do Custo de Vida (ICV-DIEESE), Salário Mínimo Nominal e Necessário, SAIS-DIEESE, and ICT-DIEESE — alongside a suite of advisory services including collective bargaining support, custom union research, on-site subsection units, and the Escola DIEESE de Ciências do Trabalho providing vocational education and degree programs. The portfolio also includes digital tools such as the App Negociando (mobile app for salary simulations) and the Calculadora do IR, published periodicals (Boletim de Conjuntura, Nota Técnica, Síntese Especial, Boletim Boas Práticas, Boletim Emprego em Pauta), and Labor Observatories operating through government partnerships. All offerings are oriented toward supporting trade unions and workers in collective bargaining, public policy advocacy, and labor market analysis.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• DIEESE analysts participate in approximately 1,000 negotiation rounds per year providing direct support to unions
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

13 partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and minor.

• Conab - Companhia Nacional de AbastecimentocoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIn 2025, DIEESE and Conab established a partnership for monitoring staple food basket prices, as a contribution to the National Food Security Policy and National Food Supply Policy. This partnership enhanced the PNCBA research methodology and coverage.
• Ministry of Labor and Employment (MTE)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLong-standing partnership for implementing labor observatories, PED research, and public employment policy development. Multiple agreements including support for School of Labor Sciences and National Labor Market Observatory.
• Ministry of HealthmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for health worker qualification and education, decentralization of health sector labor relations, and management qualification. Agreement valued at R$ 2,278,631.09.
• ILO - Organização Internacional do Trabalho (International Labour Organization)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational Labor Organization partnership for technical cooperation on labor standards, workers' rights research, and international labor comparisons.
• PNUD - Programa das Nações Unidas para o Desenvolvimento (UNDP)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerUnited Nations Development Programme partnership for development projects related to labor market, employment policies, and worker welfare in Brazil.
• FAO - Organização das Nações Unidas para a Agricultura e a AlimentaçãominorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFood and Agriculture Organization partnership for agricultural labor research and food security policy studies.
• State Governments (Bahia, Minas Gerais, Pernambuco, São Paulo, Rio Grande do Sul, Rio Grande do Norte, Espírito Santo, Santa Catarina)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerVarious state governments partner with DIEESE for Labor Observatories, employment policies, economic development research, and worker qualification programs.
• Municipal Governments (São Paulo, Campinas, Diadema, Santo André, Aracaju, Manaus, Recife, Porto Alegre, Curitiba, Maricá, Osasco)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMunicipal governments partner with DIEESE for local labor observatories, employment research, and public policy development. São Paulo maintains an Observatory of Labor (Observatório do Trabalho).
• Ministry of Women (Ministério das Mulheres)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for developing the Annual Observatory of Inequalities report and research on women's labor market participation and gender equality.
• OPAS - Organização Pan-Americana da SaúdeminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPan American Health Organization partnership for worker health research and occupational safety studies.
• IBGE - Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e EstatísticacoreTechnology or IntegrationBrazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics serves as a key data source for DIEESE research. The new ICV methodology uses IBGE's POF 2017/2018 data for product and service weighting.
• Fundação SeadecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSão Paulo State Data Analysis System Foundation partnership for PED research in São Paulo metropolitan region since the 1980s. DIEESE and Seade established initial PED methodology together.
• ANS - Agência Nacional de Saúde SuplementarminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNational Supplementary Health Agency partnership for health sector labor relations and worker studies in the private health insurance sector.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Central Unitaria de Trabajadores (CUT) Research Division: Brazil's largest trade union central confederation, an affiliated DIEESE partner and customer. CUT has its own internal research capability, making it a partial substitute/partner entity with overlapping labor research output for the Brazilian union movement.
• Fundação Seade: São Paulo state data analysis foundation that co-developed the PED methodology with DIEESE in the 1980s. They jointly produce labor market statistics for São Paulo metropolitan region and serve overlapping audiences of policymakers, unions, and researchers in Brazil.
• Economic Policy Institute: US-based non-profit think tank producing labor economics research to inform policy debates and worker advocacy. Shares DIEESE's mission of producing rigorous economic data to support labor-side arguments in policy and wage-setting discussions.

Broad incumbents

• ILO - International Labour Organization: UN agency setting international labor standards and producing comparative labor research. DIEESE is an established technical cooperation partner of the ILO, sharing the mission of producing credible labor market data for worker advocacy and policy formulation.
• IPEA - Institute for Applied Economic Research: Brazilian government-affiliated economic research institute producing macroeconomic and labor policy analysis. Both IPEA and DIEESE produce policy-oriented labor research consumed by the same union, government, and academic audiences in Brazil.
• Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS): US federal agency producing the Consumer Price Index, employment statistics, and wage data. While a government agency rather than a union-supported institution, BLS occupies a similar analytical role to DIEESE in producing authoritative labor and cost-of-living indices used for wage negotiations and policy.
• IBGE - Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics: Brazil's official national statistics agency that produces PNAD, PME, and POF household surveys. DIEESE's ICV methodology relies on IBGE's POF 2017/2018 data, and the two institutions are deeply interconnected data partners serving overlapping analytical use cases for Brazilian labor and cost-of-living measurement.

Emerging players

• W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research: US non-profit research institute focused on employment, unemployment, and labor policy. Comparable to DIEESE in its non-profit research orientation serving worker-advocacy audiences, though operating in a different country context.
• CEPR - Center for Economic and Policy Research: US-based think tank producing progressive economic policy analysis on labor, inequality, and macroeconomics. Shares DIEESE's labor-friendly research orientation and policy advocacy function, though without DIEESE's direct collective-bargaining support role.
• ILR School (Cornell University): Cornell's school of industrial and labor relations, combining academic research, education, and extension services for the labor movement. Mirrors DIEESE's combination of research production, education (Escola DIEESE), and direct union service delivery.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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• YouTubeyoutube.com/user/DIEESEonline/videos
• Facebookfacebook.com/dieese
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/dieese
• Instagraminstagram.com/dieese_online
• TikToktiktok.com/@dieese_online

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Subsidiaries1 record

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