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Revisions in these statistics

The data of the statistics have become revised according to the table below. For more information about data revisions, see Section 3 of the quality description (only in Finnish).

Revision of annual changes in wages and salaries sum in main industries ¹⁾

Industry / Reference period		Year-on-year change,%		Revision, precentage point
		1st release	Latest release (2019-08-13)
A-X Whole economy	12/2018	2,6	3,5	0,9
	01/2019	4,4	4,7	0,3
	02/2019	4,0	4,0	0,0
	03/2019	2,7	2,7	0,0
B-E Total industry	12/2018	1,0	1,5	0,5
	01/2019	3,3	3,1	-0,2
	02/2019	3,5	2,9	-0,6
	03/2019	-0,9	-1,3	-0,4
F Construction	12/2018	-1,6	0,5	2,1
	01/2019	1,3	1,4	0,1
	02/2019	4,2	4,5	0,3
	03/2019	6,7	6,7	0,0
G Wholesale and retail trade	12/2018	2,0	3,1	1,1
	01/2019	2,2	2,2	0,0
	02/2019	1,8	1,8	0,0
	03/2019	0,4	0,5	0,1
HIJLMNRS Other service activities total	12/2018	3,0	4,7	1,7
	01/2019	3,5	3,7	0,2
	02/2019	4,6	4,9	0,3
	03/2019	4,1	4,3	0,2
K Financial and insurance activities	12/2018	2,8	3,7	0,9
	01/2019	1,6	1,7	0,1
	02/2019	4,9	4,9	0,0
	03/2019	3,2	3,2	0,0
P Education, excl. public sector	12/2018	1,0	2,3	1,3
	01/2019	4,1	2,0	-2,1
	02/2019	4,3	2,9	-1,4
	03/2019	2,7	1,6	-1,1
Q Health and social work, excl. public sector	12/2018	4,4	5,4	1,0
	01/2019	7,7	8,3	0,6
	02/2019	5,9	6,2	0,3
	03/2019	7,7	8,2	0,5
OPQ Public sector	12/2018	4,7	4,1	-0,6
	01/2019	7,9	8,8	0,9
Private sector	12/2018	2,1	3,5	1,4
	01/2019	3,7	3,8	0,1
	02/2019	4,2	4,1	-0,1
	03/2019	2,9	2,8	-0,1

1) The 1st release refers to the time when data for the reference period were released for the first time. The revision describes the difference of annual change percentages between the first and latest release.

Revision of long-term annual changes in wages and salaries sum in main industries. (The years in the table have been corrected on 15 October 2019).

Industry	Year	Average 1)	Average for absolute values 2)
Whole economy (A-X)	2015	-0.7	0.7
	2016	-0.5	0.6
	2017	0.2	0.3
Manufacturing (BCDE)	2015	-0.2	0.2
	2016	-0.2	0.3
	2017	0.1	0.1
Construction (F)	2015	-1.7	1.7
	2016	-1.2	1.5
	2017	0.3	0.5
Trade (G)	2015	-0.8	0.8
	2016	-0.7	0.9
	2017	-0.7	0.7
Other services (HIJLMNRS)	2015	-1.1	1.1
	2016	-0.7	0.9
	2017	0.2	0.3
Financial intermediation (K)	2015	-0.4	0.5
	2016	-0.5	0.7
	2017	-0.2	0.4
Education (P) excl. public sector	2015	-0.6	0.6
	2016	-0.1	0.5
	2017	1.5	1.5
Health and social work (Q) excl. public sector	2015	-0.8	0.8
	2016	-0.9	1.2
	2017	0.0	0.4
Public sector (OPQ)	2015	-0.3	0.3
	2016	0.0	0.2
	2017	0.0	0.3
Private sector	2016	-0.5	0.8
	2017	0.1	0.3

1) Average for data revised between the first and seventh release in the statistical reference year.
2) Average for absolute values of differences between the first and seventh release.

Source: Wage and salary indices, Statistics Finland

Inquiries: Anna Mustonen 029 551 3651, palvelut.suhdanne@stat.fi

Director in charge: Mari Ylä-Jarkko

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Updated 13.8.2019