Table 3. Clusters of Brazilian municipalities according to the relative growth in the number of cattle (standard error) and the percentage of the total herd from 1977 to 2011 in 5-year periods.
| Cluster | N° of municipalities | Cluster totals | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 77–81 | 82–86 | 87–91 | 92–96 | 97–01 | 02–06 | 07–11 | |||||||||
| N° head | % | N° head | % | N° head | % | N° head | % | N° head | % | N° head | % | N° head | % | ||
| 1 | 4586 | 112,079,170a(781) | 99.33a | 12,339,5441a(830) | 97.01a | 13,363,0443a(886) | 92.97a | 13,531,0694a(932) | 85.95a | 13,331,7659a(919) | 79.79a | 15,176,3196(1086) | 76.00a | 15,592,9590a(1078) | 75.72a |
| 2 | 37 | 9,514c(256) | 0.01b | 53,324c(958) | 0.04b | 106,343c(1507) | 0.07c | 510,618c(4368) | 0.32d | 2,020,695bc(17107) | 1.21c | 4,938,362(41844) | 2.47c | 61,44,112b(53428) | 2.98c |
| 3 | 472 | 622,510b(334) | 0.55b | 3,508,974b(1237) | 2.76b | 7,745,821b(2067) | 5.39b | 14,258,079b(2964) | 9.06b | 19,506,141b(3504) | 11.67b | 27,747,408(5022) | 13.90b | 27,881,597b(5159) | 13.54b |
| 4 | 441 | 76c(1) | 0.00b | 134,185c(204) | 0.10b | 2,135,892b(1006) | 1.49bc | 7,213,948b(1748) | 4.58c | 11,880,724b(2370) | 7.11b | 14,225,586(3220) | 7.12b | 14,594,619b(3556) | 7.09c |
| 5 | 22 | 123,352bc(3846) | 0.11b | 102,609c(3195) | 0.08b | 124,963c(3616) | 0.09c | 131,216c(2937) | 0.08d | 365,547c(5487) | 0.22c | 1,016,667(16864) | 0.51c | 1,389,080b(25859) | 0.68d |
Means in the same column with different letters indicate a difference according to the Tukey test (P<0.05).