Historical series under the old definition of average worker, 1979-2004

The tables contained in this annex reproduce data published in Taxing Wages 2003-2004, for the convenience of the reader as the main body of this Report only presents data for 2000-08. However, any user of the data should be aware of its limitations. First, it is based on the previous definition of the wage – the average production worker (APW) wage. Second, there were changes in the reporting practices of some countries over the period 1979-2004 and so the times series cannot be regarded as completely consistent. The most important breaks in the series for recent years are the following: