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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 (2019-09-13)
A-X Whole economy	01/2019	4.4	4.8	0.4
	02/2019	4.0	4.1	0.1
	03/2019	2.7	2.8	0.1
	04/2019	4.1	4.2	0.1
	05/2019	6.2	5.7	-0.5
B-E Total industry	01/2019	3.3	3.1	-0.2
	02/2019	2.9	3.0	0.1
	03/2019	-1.3	-1.3	0.0
	04/2019	3.7	3.7	0.0
	05/2019	5.7	5.6	-0.1
F Construction	01/2019	1.3	1.5	0.2
	02/2019	4.5	4.6	0.1
	03/2019	6.7	7.1	0.4
	04/2019	5.1	5.1	0.0
	05/2019	10.7	9.8	-0.9
G Wholesale and retail trade	01/2019	2.2	2.2	0.0
	02/2019	1.8	1.8	0.0
	03/2019	0.5	0.6	0.1
	04/2019	4.6	4.7	0.1
	05/2019	3.2	2.8	-0.4
HIJLMNRS Other service activities total	01/2019	3.5	3.7	0.2
	02/2019	4.9	4.9	0.0
	03/2019	4.3	4.2	-0.1
	04/2019	4.6	4.6	0.0
	05/2019	6.4	5.5	-0.9
K Financial and insurance activities	01/2019	1.6	1.7	0.1
	02/2019	4.9	4.8	-0.1
	03/2019	3.2	3.1	-0.1
	04/2019	0.0	-0.1	-0.1
	05/2019	1.6	1.4	-0.2
P Education, excl. public sector	01/2019	4.1	2.1	-2.0
	02/2019	2.9	2.9	0.0
	03/2019	1.6	1.6	0.0
	04/2019	5.0	4.8	-0.2
	05/2019	1.9	0.9	-1.0
Q Health and social work, excl. public sector	01/2019	7.7	8.7	1.0
	02/2019	6.2	6.2	0.0
	03/2019	8.2	8.1	-0.1
	04/2019	2.0	2.2	0.2
	05/2019	10.3	10.1	-0.2
OPQ Public sector	01/2019	7.9	9.0	1.1
Private sector	01/2019	3.7	3.9	0.2
	02/2019	4.1	4.2	0.1
	03/2019	2.8	3.0	0.2
	04/2019	4.6	4.7	0.1
	05/2019	6.8	6.3	-0.5

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) 1) In 2015 and 2016, the average was calculated from data revised between the first and seventh release months in the statistical reference year. The average for 2017 was calculated upon completion of the data for the first and last release months in the statistical reference year, when the official structural business and financial statement statistics are also published.
2) 2) In 2015 to 2016, the average was calculated from the absolute values of differences between the first and seventh release months. The average for 2017 was calculated from the absolute values of differences between the first and last release months in the statistical reference year, when the official structural business and financial statement statistics are also published.

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Updated 13.9.2019