Landeskreditbank Baden-Württemberg - L-Bank

The following table shows the development of prices in Germany during each of the years indicated:
Cost-of-living Index for all Households
(changes from previous year in %, 1995 = 100)
2004 2003 2002 2001
Total ................................................................. 1.6 1.1 1.4 2.0
Food .............................................................. (0.3) (0.1) 1.0 5.1
Other consumer goods without energy ................................... 1.5 0.3 0.8 0.3
Energy* ........................................................... 4.2 4.0 0.3 5.7
Services without rents ................................................ 2.3 1.4 2.4 2.4
Rents ............................................................. 1.0 1.2 1.4 1.2
* Electricity, gas and fuel.
Source: German Central Bank, Monthly Report February 2005, Table IX. 7.
The following table shows information concerning wages and salaries in industry and commerce (including
construction) in Baden-Württemberg for each of the years indicated:
Wages and Salaries in Industry and Commerce
2004 2003 2002 2001
(monthly averages in EUR)
Industry: .........................................................
Gross weekly earnings ..............................................
Blue collar, male ............................................... 644 628 614 606
Blue collar, female ............................................. 471 461 449 441
Industry and Commerce: ...........................................
Gross monthly earnings ..............................................
White collar, male .............................................. 3,984 3,889 3,775 3,688
White collar, female ............................................ 2,760 2,677 2,587 2,516
Source: State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg, data on employment, available at www.statistik.badenwuerttemberg.de/ArbeitsmErwerb/Landesdaten/LRt1901.asp
and …/LRt1902.asp.
Employment and Labor
Unemployment rates reached high levels during the 1980s and 1990s, exceeding 9% from 1994 on,
compared to unemployment rates in the 1970s of between 0.9% and 4.7%. These high unemployment rates were
due to a variety of reasons, including competition from inexpensive foreign products, computerization of
factories and offices, the reunification of Germany and the effects of a world economic recession. The
unemployment rate in Baden-Württemberg remains consistently lower than that of Germany as a whole. In
December 2004 the unemployment rate in Baden-Württemberg was 6.3% (in thousands: 346), compared with the
unemployment rate for Germany of 10.8% (in thousands: 4,464 in the same month. Since January 1, 2004, labor
market statistics no longer classify unemployed persons who take part in suitability statement measures and
training measures as unemployed. Using the same criteria, the unemployment rates for the previous years would,
therefore, have been lower by approximately 0.2%.
Source: Federal Labor Office, data on employment, available at www.pub.arbeitsamt.de/hst/services/statistik/
detail/d.html, Arbeitslose - nach Ländern - Arbeitslosenquoten.
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