Title: Minimum Agreed Wages.
Source: Collective agreements.
Wages:
This series is not published in the Bulletin.
Statistical Department, National Directorate for Human Resources and Employment, Ministry of Labour and Social Security (Departamento de Estadísticas, Dirección Nacional de Recursos Humanos y Empleo, Ministerio de Trabajo y Seguridad Social).
Geographical: Whole country.
Industrial: Manufacturing.
Occupational: Skilled and unskilled workers separately.
Establishment: The collective agreements are general and cover nearly all establishments with the same activity.
Persons covered: All workers included in the 20 collective agreements used for the preparation of the series.
Annual since the series began in 1948 and monthly from 1963 up to 1982.
Employment: Not applicable.
Hours of work: Not applicable.
Wages: The data on wages refer to hourly wage rates fixed by the collective agreements.
Each month.
The data are obtained from the registers of collective labour agreements, Acts of Agreement and Decrees of the Executive Power which introduce changes in the basic wage rates. The series covers 23 trade unions in the manufacturing industry which account for approximately 50 per cent of the employees in this sector. No estimations or adjustments are made.
No changes have been made to the series.
This series is not contained in any national publication.
The data are obtainable from the database of the Statistical Department, National Directorate for Human Resources and Employment, Ministry of Labour and Social Security.