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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 (2017-01–13)
A-X Whole economy	06/2016	1.1	1.0	-0.1
	07/2016	1.4	1.3	-0.1
	08/2016	2.1	2.3	0.2
	09/2016	4.7	4.3	-0.4
	10/2016	0.6	0.8	0.2
B-E Total industry	06/2016	-2.3	-2.3	0.0
	07/2016	0.0	0.0	0.0
	08/2016	-0.9	-0.7	0.2
	09/2016	5.1	5.1	0.0
	10/2016	-4.8	-4.8	0.0
F Construction	06/2016	6.3	6.0	-0.3
	07/2016	5.2	4.9	-0.3
	08/2016	6.7	6.8	0.1
	09/2016	17.3	16.1	-1.2
	10/2016	1.1	1.8	0.7
G Wholesale and retail trade	06/2016	1.5	1.3	-0.2
	07/2016	1.4	1.1	-0.3
	08/2016	1.9	2.0	0.1
	09/2016	3.1	2.6	-0.5
	10/2016	2.2	2.1	-0.1
HIJLMNRS Other service activities total	06/2016	2.5	2.3	-0.2
	07/2016	2.6	2.2	-0.4
	08/2016	3.6	3.9	0.3
	09/2016	6.5	5.9	-0.6
	10/2016	3.4	3.1	-0.3
K Financial and insurance activities	06/2016	2.3	2.0	-0.3
	07/2016	3.3	2.9	-0.4
	08/2016	2.6	2.9	0.3
	09/2016	3.4	3.3	-0.1
	10/2016	4.0	4.2	0.2
P Education, excl. public sector	06/2016	-1.0	-1.2	-0.2
	07/2016	-1.5	-1.7	-0.2
	08/2016	-0.7	-0.4	0.3
	09/2016	-0.2	-0.6	-0.4
	10/2016	-1.3	-1.3	0.0
Q Health and social work, excl. public sector	06/2016	5.0	4.9	-0.1
	07/2016	5.9	5.8	-0.1
	08/2016	6.2	6.9	0.7
	09/2016	7.6	6.9	-0.7
	10/2016	5.7	5.5	-0.2
OPQ Public sector	06/2016	-0.5	-0.5	0.0
	07/2016	-0.4	-0.4	0.0
	08/2016	0.9	1.0	0.1
	09/2016	-0.4	-0.4	0.0
	10/2016	-0.6	-0.2	0.4
Private sector	06/2016	1.9	1.7	-0.2
	07/2016	2.5	2.1	-0.4
	08/2016	2.8	3.0	0.2
	09/2016	7.3	6.8	-0.5
	10/2016	0.8	0.8	0.0

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

Industry	Year	Average 1)	Average for absolute values 2)
Whole economy (A-X)	2013	-0.8	0.8
	2014	-0.7	0.7
	2015	-0.7	0.7
Manufacturing (BCDE)	2013	-0.3	0.3
	2014	-0.2	0.4
	2015	-0.2	0.2
Construction (F)	2013	-1.9	1.9
	2014	-2.0	2.0
	2015	-1.7	1.7
Trade (G)	2013	-0.7	0.8
	2014	-0.7	0.7
	2015	-0.8	0.8
Other services (HIJLMNRS)	2013	-0.8	0.9
	2014	-0.8	0.8
	2015	-1.1	1.1
Financial intermediation (K)	2013	-0.8	0.9
	2014	-0.3	0.8
	2015	-0.4	0.5
Education (P) excl. public sector	2013	-0.2	0.5
	2014	-0.1	0.5
	2015	-0.6	0.6
Health and social work (Q) excl. public sector	2013	-1.1	1.1
	2014	-0.6	0.6
	2015	-0.8	0.8
Public sector (OPQ)	2013	-0.2	0.3
	2014	0.0	0.1
	2015	-0.3	0.3
Private sector	2014	-0.7	0.8
	2015	-0.8	0.8

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

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Updated 13.01.2017