The Center for Advanced Studies in Applied Economics (Cepea) is part of the Department of Economics, Administration and Sociology of the “Luiz de Queiroz” College of Agriculture (Esalq), a unit of the University of São Paulo (USP), located in Piracicaba. It is a research group registered with the CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development).
Cepea naturally places emphasis on topics related to the rural environment, but without excluding other economic sectors with direct or indirect links to agribusiness. Its activities consist of developing applied research, carrying out original work with economic-administrative content, and broadly disseminating the results it obtains. By involving dozens of undergraduate and graduate students, it also plays the role of contributing to the training of these professionals.
Information about the data source
Cepea was officially created in 1982 as a way for the Department of Economics, Administration and Rural Sociology of Esalq/USP to establish more efficient channels for receiving society's demands and meeting them through an organized system of service provision to public and private entities.
Name of the chosen source: Dataset on the CEPEA egg indicator – Delivered Product
Maintaining institution: Center for Advanced Studies in Applied Economics (Cepea)
Electronic address to access the source: http://www.cepea.esalq.usp.br/br/indicador/ovos.aspx
The navigation process to access the database described is: go to the “CEPEA” website, go to the “eggs” menu, and then the “price series” submenu.
Information about the data
The files containing the data can be downloaded in the “(XLS)” format and can be opened with Microsoft Office Excel.
Below are described the attributes that make up the structure of the dataset used to generate the visualization presented next:
Date - Period stipulated by the data record (weekly);
Region - Greater BH (MG), Greater SP (SP) and Rio de Janeiro (RJ). Weekly average of commercial egg prices.
* Note: commercial egg prices; box of 30 dozen; spot, weekly average (CEPEA, 2017).
Data visualization
To show possibilities for using and analyzing the data made available in the source described, visualizations were created that can give the researcher a better understanding of the information obtained.
Chart 2: Represents the weekly average egg price in São Paulo (SP).
Source: Authors.
Chart 4: Represents the comparison of the weekly average egg price in the three
states: MG, SP and RJ.
Source: Authors.
Authors: Allan Sene*; Isabela Gomes Ferreira Pedroso*; Jair de Arruda Campos*; Paula Rodrigues Gaspar* and Sofia Souza Guidolin*.
* Students in the Business Administration program at São Paulo State University - "Júlio de Mesquita Filho".
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