The index of production in construction diminished 2.2% in year-on-year terms (3 months moving average, working days and seasonally adjusted), up by 0.8 percentage points from August.
Employment and wages and salaries indices recorded year-on-year change rates of -0.5% and 2.0%, respectively (-0.5% and 0.0% in the previous month).

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