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

Friday, 27 June 2003


Table 3 : Quarter-to-Quarter Changes (%) in the Nominal and Real Indices of Payroll per Person Engaged for All Industry Sectors from the first quarter of 2002 to the first quarter of 2003

Nominal Index of Payroll per
Person Engaged
Real Index of Payroll per
Person Engaged


Quarter/Year Seasonally Unadjusted Seasonally Adjusted Seasonally Unadjusted Seasonally Adjusted


First quarter 2002 +7.4 # +9.0 +0.9
Second quarter 2002 -13.2 -0.4 -12.8 +0.3
Third quarter 2002 -0.3 -0.4 +0.4 +0.4
Fourth quarter 2002 +6.3 -0.3 +6.8 +0.2
First quarter 2003 +6.5 -0.9 +7.0 -0.9

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.

# Change within 0.05%

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