Wage Statistics for December 2002 and
Payroll Statistics for 4th Quarter 2002
Friday, 28 March 2003
| Table 3 : | Quarter-to-Quarter Changes (%) in the Nominal and Real Indices of Payroll per Person Engaged for All Industry Sectors from the fourth quarter of 2001 to the fourth quarter of 2002 |
| Nominal Index
of Payroll per Person Engaged |
Real Index of
Payroll per Person Engaged |
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| Quarter/Year | Seasonally Unadjusted | Seasonally Adjusted | Seasonally Unadjusted | Seasonally Adjusted | |
| Fourth quarter 2001 | +5.9 | -0.6 | +7.1 | +0.6 | |
| First quarter 2002 | +7.4 | -0.2 | +9.0 | +0.5 | |
| Second quarter 2002 | -13.2 | -0.2 | -12.8 | +0.6 | |
| Third quarter 2002 | -0.3 | -0.4 | +0.4 | +0.5 | |
| Fourth quarter 2002 | +6.3 | -0.2 | +6.8 | +0.4 | |
| Notes : |
The Real Index of Payroll per Person Engaged is obtained by deflating the nominal index by the 1999/2000-based Composite Consumer Price Index. |
The seasonally adjusted data series is subject to routine revision when more up-to-date figures become available. |