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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 (2018-05-14)
A-X Whole economy	10/2017	3.1	3.3	0.2
	11/2017	3.7	3.7	0.0
	12/2017	2.2	3.0	0.8
	01/2018	4.5	3.9	-0.6
	02/2018	4.1	4.3	0.2
B-E Total industry	10/2017	2.8	2.8	0.0
	11/2017	4.2	4.2	0.0
	12/2017	1.8	2.1	0.3
	01/2018	4.0	3.7	-0.3
	02/2018	3.9	4.0	0.1
F Construction	10/2017	5.7	5.9	0.2
	11/2017	8.2	8.4	0.2
	12/2017	4.7	6.5	1.8
	01/2018	8.8	7.7	-1.1
	02/2018	8.6	9.2	0.6
G Wholesale and retail trade	10/2017	1.8	1.6	-0.2
	11/2017	3.6	1.7	-1.9
	12/2017	2.3	1.6	-0.7
	01/2018	2.4	1.8	-0.6
	02/2018	3.4	3.4	0.0
HIJLMNRS Other service activities total	10/2017	5.2	5.6	0.4
	11/2017	5.9	6.6	0.7
	12/2017	3.9	5.5	1.6
	01/2018	6.9	6.3	-0.6
	02/2018	7.3	7.6	0.3
K Financial and insurance activities	10/2017	1.4	1.0	-0.4
	11/2017	1.9	2.1	0.2
	12/2017	-0.8	0.2	1.0
	01/2018	-0.6	-0.4	0.2
	02/2018	-1.4	-0.5	0.9
P Education, excl. public sector	10/2017	-0.6	0.1	0.7
	11/2017	0.0	0.3	0.3
	12/2017	-0.9	0.2	1.1
	01/2018	0.4	-0.8	-1.2
	02/2018	-0.6	-0.2	0.4
Q Health and social work, excl. public sector	10/2017	4.1	3.2	-0.9
	11/2017	3.5	3.5	0.0
	12/2017	0.8	1.7	0.9
	01/2018	3.5	3.1	-0.4
	02/2018	2.0	2.3	0.3
OPQ Public sector	10/2017	1.4	1.4	0.0
	11/2017	0.2	0.0	-0.2
	12/2017	1.1	0.7	-0.4
	01/2018	2.9	2.3	-0.6
	02/2018	1.4	1.3	-0.1
Private sector	10/2017	4.6	4.6	0.0
	11/2017	5.8	5.7	-0.1
	12/2017	3.3	4.2	0.9
	01/2018	6.0	5.3	-0.7
	02/2018	6.3	6.5	0.2

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	-0.5	0.6
Manufacturing (BCDE)	2014	-0.2	0.4
	2015	-0.2	0.2
	2016	-0.2	0.3
Construction (F)	2014	-2.0	2.0
	2015	-1.7	1.7
	2016	-1.2	1.5
Trade (G)	2014	-0.7	0.7
	2015	-0.8	0.8
	2016	-0.7	0.9
Other services (HIJLMNRS)	2014	-0.8	0.8
	2015	-1.1	1.1
	2016	-0.7	0.9
Financial intermediation (K)	2014	-0.3	0.8
	2015	-0.4	0.5
	2016	-0.5	0.7
Education (P) excl. public sector	2014	-0.1	0.5
	2015	-0.6	0.6
	2016	-0.1	0.5
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	0.2
Private sector	2015	-0.8	0.8
	2016	-0.5	0.8

1) In 2014 and 2015, the average was calculated from data revised between the first and seventh release months in the statistical reference year. The average for 2016 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 2014 to 2015, the average was calculated from the absolute values of differences between the first and seventh release months. The average for 2016 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 14.5.2018