Análise do perfil da pessoa física e jurídica dos microempreendedores individuais do Estado do Ceará

Abstract

In view of the growth of the representativeness of small informal autonomous workers in the Brazilian economy and the government's consequent concern in the development of public policies that encourage the formalization of start-ups, arises at the figure of the individual microentrepreneur who has been gaining greater prominence and proving to be an important growth mechanism in the country, in view of this scenario arises the importance of analyzing the figure of the MEI in the state of Ceará. The objective of this study is to show an analysis of the profile of the physical and legal person of the MEIs of the state of Ceará in its main characteristics, such as: the evolution of the amount of MEIs in the state over years, the placement of the state in relation to the rest of Brazil , the main activities performed, the form of action, income, gender, age group, schooling and the race of individual entrepreneurs. The present study has a descriptive character, carried out with secondary data, taken from the individual microentrepreneur portal, a website created by the government to formalize entrepreneurs, and research conducted by SEBRAE. It is noticed that the state of Ceará is the ninth Brazilian state with the largest amount of formalized MEIs, with respect to the profile of the legal entity, it is noted that the activities most performed by individual microentrepreneurs in the state are related to the commerce, followed by the provision of services and industry, already with respect to the way the MEIs operates in the state, one can observe the preference for the fixed establishment, followed by the fixed place outside the store and door to door. Regarding the profile of the physical person of the MEI, there is no sudden difference in the number of male and female entrepreneurs, the age group of this type of entrepreneur has greater representativeness by adults, the schooling of this entrepreneurial size has highlight to complete high school, it is also observed that the vast majority of MEIs declare themselves white or brown.