Summary
In March 2008, the year-on-year rate of change of services turnover was -3.8%, down by 12.7 percentage points compared with February. This decline was partially due to calendar effects (plus one working day in February and less two in March when comparing with the same months of 2007). The year-on-year rate of the 1rst quarter 2008 stood at 2.8%.
Employment and Wages and salaries rose by 0.7%, 4.0%, respectively. Hours worked decreased by 2.8%.