Business turnover, employment, wage and hours worked indices in industry
Negative Year-On-Year rate in Industry Turnover
Employment and Working Hours declined, Wages grew
- December 2008
05 February 2009
Summary
In December 2008, the year-on-year growth rate of nominal Industry turnover declined 12.8%, 1.3 percentage points below the previous month. This rate was determined by negative performances in sales of both markets, domestic (-11.2%) and external (-15.9%).
Also in year-on-year terms, employment and hours worked (working days adjusted) fell 2.8% and 8.1%, respectively, while wages grew 0.2%.