Wage Statistics for December 2002 and
Payroll Statistics for 4th Quarter 2002
Friday, 28 March 2003
| Table 2 : | Year-on-Year Changes (%) in Indices of Payroll per Person Engaged by Selected Major Sector from the fourth quarter of 2001 to the fourth quarter of 2002 |
| Selected Major Sector | Fourth Quarter 2001 |
First Quarter 2002 |
Second Quarter 2002 |
Third Quarter 2002 |
Fourth Quarter 2002 |
| Manufacturing | +0.6 (+2.7) |
-0.8 (+1.8) |
-0.6 (+2.7) |
-1.1 (+2.6) |
-2.2 (+0.7) |
| Wholesale, Retail and Import/Export Trades, Restaurants and Hotels |
+0.4 (+2.5) |
-2.9 (-0.3) |
-2.6 (+0.7) |
-2.0 (+1.6) |
-2.3 (+0.7) |
| Transport, Storage and Communications | -0.5 (+1.5) |
-1.9 (+0.7) |
+1.5 (+4.9) |
-2.5 (+1.0) |
+2.0 (+5.1) |
| Financing, Insurance, Real
Estate and Business Services |
-2.0 (+0.1) |
-2.0 (+0.6) |
-2.6 (+0.6) |
-1.4 (+2.2) |
-2.9 (#) |
| Community, Social and Personal Services | -0.5 (+1.6) |
# (+2.7) |
+0.1 (+3.4) |
-2.4 (+1.2) |
-2.7 (+0.3) |
| All Sectors @ | +0.4 (+2.5) |
-0.6 (+2.1) |
-1.0 (+2.2) |
-1.5 (+2.1) |
-1.2 (+1.8) |
Notes : |
| Figures not in brackets denote percentage changes in the Nominal Indices of Payroll per Person Engaged over a year earlier. Figures in brackets denote percentage changes in the corresponding real indices. The Real Index of Payroll per Person Engaged is obtained by deflating the nominal index by the 1999/2000-based Composite Consumer Price Index. |
| @ | Refer to all industries covered by the survey. | |
| # | Change within 0.05% | |