---
id: "br_pis"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: true
categories: ["pii", "persons", "government"]
country: ["BR"]
langs: ["pt"]
quality: 80
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/br_pis"
---

# Brazilian PIS/PASEP/NIT/NIS number (`br_pis`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Eleven-digit worker number of Brazil used for labour and social security benefits. Caixa issues it as the PIS number; the PASEP number of public servants, the NIT of the INSS and the NIS share the same numbering. The last digit is a check digit. It is often written as NNN.NNNNN.NN-N.

- Personal data (PII): yes
- Categories: Personally identifiable information (pii), Person related (persons), Government related (government)
- Countries: Brazil (BR)
- Languages: Portuguese (pt)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^\d{3}\.?\d{5}\.?\d{2}-?\d$
```

## Examples

- `121.51144.13-7` — Example from the documentation of the Perl module Business::BR::PIS
- `12151144137` — The same number without separators
- `1291692642` (invalid example) — Ten digits

## Translations

- pt: PIS/PASEP/NIT/NIS

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIS/PASEP>

## Quality

Score 80/100. Missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), detector coverage.

JSON: <https://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/br_pis.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/BR/persons/br_pis.yaml>