A região metropolitana de Belo Horizonte: uma análise descritiva do setor terciário no período de 2006 a 2019

Abstract

This work studies the three major economic sectors (Agriculture, Industry, and Service) of the cities from Belo Horizonte Metropolitan Area through descriptive analysis, Principal component analysis, and Cluster analysis to show how important the Service sector is for the economy of this urban conglomeration and its cities. The paper also wants to observe if there is a concentration of economic activities of this sector in Belo Horizonte. To show that, it has been used data from 2006 to 2019 sourced by IBGE, CAGED, RAIS, and IPEA of total wage expenditure, employment, Gross Domestic Product, amount of production units, total productivity, average scale, and population. The results show that the Service sector is still highly relevant for the Belo Horizonte Metropolitan Area, demonstrating certain level of evolution throughout the years, but also with high levels of concentration of such sector in Belo Horizonte and in its closer surroundings.