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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 (2017-12-11)
A-X Whole economy	05/2017	3.3	2.8	-0.5
	06/2017	2.7	2.4	-0.3
	07/2017	-1.3	-1.7	-0.4
	08/2017	2.8	2.5	-0.3
	09/2017	2.6	2.6	0.0
B-E Total industry	05/2017	2.4	2.2	-0.2
	06/2017	6.2	6.0	-0.2
	07/2017	-2.2	-2.5	-0.3
	08/2017	2.2	1.9	-0.3
	09/2017	0.9	0.9	0.0
F Construction	05/2017	8.9	8.0	-0.9
	06/2017	15.2	14.4	-0.8
	07/2017	-2.1	-2.9	-0.8
	08/2017	8.3	7.6	-0.7
	09/2017	5.8	5.7	-0.1
G Wholesale and retail trade	05/2017	2.5	1.2	-1.3
	06/2017	2.7	1.5	-1.2
	07/2017	0.6	-0.4	-1.0
	08/2017	1.2	0.8	-0.4
	09/2017	1.6	1.7	0.1
HIJLMNRS Other service activities total	05/2017	4.7	4.3	-0.4
	06/2017	5.6	5.4	-0.2
	07/2017	2.9	2.3	-0.6
	08/2017	5.2	4.8	-0.4
	09/2017	5.1	5.2	0.1
K Financial and insurance activities	05/2017	3.5	3.2	-0.3
	06/2017	1.9	1.7	-0.2
	07/2017	2.4	2.2	-0.2
	08/2017	2.5	2.5	0.0
	09/2017	8.9	8.9	0.0
P Education, excl. public sector	05/2017	-1.3	-1.3	0.0
	06/2017	-1.0	-1.0	0.0
	07/2017	-2.4	-2.8	-0.4
	08/2017	-0.5	-0.6	-0.1
	09/2017	-0.5	-0.4	0.1
Q Health and social work, excl. public sector	05/2017	4.9	4.2	-0.7
	06/2017	3.9	3.4	-0.5
	07/2017	2.4	1.7	-0.7
	08/2017	1.4	0.8	-0.6
	09/2017	2.7	2.8	0.1
OPQ Public sector	05/2017	1.1	1.2	0.1
	06/2017	-5.2	-5.2	0.0
	07/2017	-5.7	-5.7	0.0
	08/2017	0.3	0.4	0.1
	09/2017	0.2	0.2	0.0
Private sector	05/2017	4.9	4.2	-0.7
	06/2017	7.1	6.7	-0.4
	07/2017	0.8	0.3	-0.5
	08/2017	4.5	4.1	-0.4
	09/2017	3.9	3.9	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 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)	2014	-0.7	0.7
	2015	-0.7	0.7
	2016	-0.4	0.5
Manufacturing (BCDE)	2014	-0.2	0.4
	2015	-0.2	0.2
	2016	-0.1	0.3
Construction (F)	2014	-2.0	2.0
	2015	-1.7	1.7
	2016	-0.9	1.3
Trade (G)	2014	-0.7	0.7
	2015	-0.8	0.8
	2016	-0.5	0.7
Other services (HIJLMNRS)	2014	-0.8	0.8
	2015	-1.1	1.1
	2016	-0.6	0.8
Financial intermediation (K)	2014	-0.3	0.8
	2015	-0.4	0.5
	2016	-0.2	0.6
Education (P) excl. public sector	2014	-0.1	0.5
	2015	-0.6	0.6
	2016	-0.3	0.6
Health and social work (Q) excl. public sector	2014	-0.6	0.6
	2015	-0.8	0.8
	2016	-0.9	1.2
Public sector (OPQ)	2014	0.0	0.1
	2015	-0.3	0.3
	2016	0.0	0.1
Private sector	2015	-0.8	0.8
	2016	-0.5	0.8

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

Source: Wage and salary indices, Statistics Finland

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Updated 11.12.2017