This article analyses the special processes of the National Home Research Sample’s (PNAD) micro data relative to the occupations of rural families in the state of Paraná between 1992 and 1999. The data show growth in the number of families working in non-agricultural activities, a reduction of the number of families working in exclusively agricultural activities, and growth in the number families headed by pensioners and/or retired people. It is possible to assume that the Paranaense rural environment is experiencing a type of "urbanization" and increasing transformation in the housing area. Further information leads us to conclude that an important reduction in the universe of Brazilian family agriculture is occurring.
Family; agricultural and rural occupation; Paraná State
