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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 the wages and salaries sum in main industries ¹⁾

Industry / Reference period		Year-on-year change,%		Revision, percentage point
		1st release	Latest release (2020-11-13)
A-X Whole economy	04/2020	-3.2	-2.1	1.1
	05/2020	-7.2	-7.6	-0.4
	06/2020	-2.9	-3.2	-0.3
	07/2020	1.2	1.0	-0.2
	08/2020	-2.7	-2.6	0.1
B-E Total industry	04/2020	-6.2	-3.2	3.0
	05/2020	-8.2	-8.2	0.0
	06/2020	-3.9	-3.8	0.1
	07/2020	1.1	1.1	0.0
	08/2020	-5.8	-5.8	0.0
F Construction	04/2020	4.8	6.1	1.3
	05/2020	-8.6	-8.8	-0.2
	06/2020	-1.6	-1.8	-0.2
	07/2020	8.8	8.6	-0.2
	08/2020	-8.7	-8.4	0.3
G Wholesale and retail trade	04/2020	-4.6	-4.0	0.6
	05/2020	-7.9	-8.3	-0.4
	06/2020	-5.7	-6.1	-0.4
	07/2020	-0.1	-0.4	-0.3
	08/2020	-0.1	0.2	0.3
HIJLMNRS Other service activities total	04/2020	-5.5	-4.7	0.8
	05/2020	-13.0	-13.7	-0.7
	06/2020	-8.6	-9.2	-0.6
	07/2020	-2.6	-3.1	-0.5
	08/2020	-4.0	-4.0	0.0
K Financial and insurance activities	04/2020	4.2	4.7	0.5
	05/2020	1.9	2.0	0.1
	06/2020	1.2	0.8	-0.4
	07/2020	2.0	1.6	-0.4
	08/2020	1.6	1.6	0.0
P Education, excl. public sector	04/2020	-3.5	-3.7	-0.2
	05/2020	-6.5	-7.1	-0.6
	06/2020	-5.3	-6.1	-0.8
	07/2020	-0.7	-1.0	-0.3
	08/2020	0.8	0.9	0.1
Q Health and social work, excl. public sector	04/2020	-1.6	0.0	1.6
	05/2020	-7.6	-7.7	-0.1
	06/2020	-4.1	-4.3	-0.2
	07/2020	3.7	3.5	-0.2
	08/2020	3.8	3.8	0.0
OPQ Public sector	04/2020	-1.1	-0.8	0.3
	05/2020	0.3	0.2	-0.1
	06/2020	5.3	5.3	0.0
	07/2020	3.4	3.4	0.0
	08/2020	0.5	0.5	0.0
Private sector	04/2020	-3.9	-2.2	1.7
	05/2020	-9.9	-10.2	-0.3
	06/2020	-5.7	-6.0	-0.3
	07/2020	1.2	1.0	-0.2
	08/2020	-3.9	-3.8	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 releases.

Revision of long-term annual changes in the wages and salaries sum in main industries

Industry	Year	Average 1)	Average for absolute values 2)
Whole economy (A-X)	2016	-0.5	0.7
	2017	0.2	0.3
	2018	0.1	0.2
Manufacturing (BCDE)	2016	-0.2	0.3
	2017	0.1	0.1
	2018	-0.1	0.1
Construction (F)	2016	-1.2	1.6
	2017	0.3	0.5
	2018	0.1	0.4
Trade (G)	2016	-0.7	0.9
	2017	-0.7	0.7
	2018	-0.2	0.3
Other services (HIJLMNRS)	2016	-0.8	1.1
	2017	0.2	0.3
	2018	-0.1	0.5
Financial intermediation (K)	2016	-0.5	0.7
	2017	-0.2	0.4
	2018	-0.2	0.6
Education (P) excl. public sector	2016	-0.1	0.5
	2017	1.5	1.5
	2018	0.6	0.7
Health and social work (Q) excl. public sector	2016	-0.9	1.2
	2017	0.0	0.4
	2018	1.2	1.3
Public sector (OPQ)	2016	-0.2	0.3
	2017	0.0	0.3
	2018	0.3	0.3
Private sector	2017	0.1	0.3
	2018	0.1	0.2

1) In 2016, the average was calculated from data revised between the first and seventh release months in the statistical reference year. The average for 2017 and 2018 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) In 2016, the average was calculated from the absolute values of differences between the first and seventh release months. The average for 2017 and 2018 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.

Source: Wage and salary indices, Statistics Finland

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Updated 13.11.2020