Services Turnover Index, March 2013, INE

The services turnover index, adjusted for calendar and seasonal effects, decreased 8.6% in March in year-on-year terms (change rate of -10.5% in February). In the 1st quarter of 2013 the year-on-year change rate of this index was 8.5% (-9.6% in the previous quarter).
The year-on-year change rates of the indices of employment, wages and salaries and of the number of hours worked, adjusted for calendar effects, were -5.1%, -5.1% and -7.1%, respectively (-6.2%, -2.9% and -8.5% in February, by the same order).