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Table 1 Year-on-Year Change in Indices of Payroll Per Person Engaged

by Selected Major Sector

Selected Major Sector

Manufacturing

Wholesale, Retail and Import/Export

Trades, Restaurants and Hotels

% change for 1st Quarter 1996 over 1st Quarter 1995

in nominal terms

+6.4

+11.5

in real terms

+4.8

Transport, Storage and

+12.2

+5.5

Communications

Financing, Insurance, Real

+13.3

+6.4

Estate and Business Services

Community, Social and Personal

+8.9

+2.3

Services

All Sectors @

+11.1

+4.4

Table 2 Year-on-Year Change in Wage Indices by Selected Major Sector

Selected Major Sector

Manufacturing

% change for March 1996 over March 1995

in nominal terms

in real terms

+5.6

-1.0

+5.5

-1.2

Wholesale, Retail and Import/Export

Trades, Restaurants and Hotels

Transport Services #

+6.7

-0.1

Financing, Insurance, Real

+7.4

+0.6

Estate and Business Services

Personal Services ##

+8.0

+1.2

All Sectors @

+6.1

# Excluding industries related to storage and communications ## Excluding industries related to community and social services

@ Including the electricity and gas sector

*Less than 0.05

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