Wage Statistics for March 2003 and
Payroll Statistics for 1st Quarter 2003

Friday, 27 June 2003


Table 2 : Year-on-Year Changes (%) in Indices of Payroll per Person Engaged by Selected Major Sector from the first quarter of 2002 to the first quarter of 2003

Selected Major Sector First
Quarter
2002
Second
Quarter
2002
Third
Quarter
2002
Fourth
Quarter
2002
First
Quarter
2003

Manufacturing -0.8
(+1.8)
-0.6
(+2.7)
-1.1
(+2.6)
-2.2
(+0.7)
-5.1
(-3.2)
Wholesale, Retail and Import/Export
     Trades, Restaurants and Hotels
-2.9
(-0.3)
-2.6
(+0.7)
-2.0
(+1.6)
-2.3
(+0.7)
-1.0
(+1.0)
Transport, Storage and Communications -1.9
(+0.7)
+1.5
(+4.9)
-2.5
(+1.0)
+2.0
(+5.1)
-0.3
(+1.7)
Financing, Insurance, Real Estate
     and Business Services
-2.0
(+0.6)
-2.6
(+0.6)
-1.4
(+2.2)
-2.9
(#)
-2.7
(-0.7)
Community, Social and Personal Services #
(+2.7)
+0.1
(+3.4)
-2.4
(+1.2)
-2.7
(+0.3)
-4.2
(-2.2)

All Sectors @ -0.6
(+2.1)
-1.0
(+2.2)
-1.5
(+2.1)
-1.2
(+1.8)
-2.0
(#)


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%

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