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Unemployment data are taken from the ILO's Yearbook of Labor Statistics 1995 and refer to 1992 and source l: _Labor force sample surveys_ and _General household sample surveys._ Mexico Data on paid employment in non-agricultural activities are taken from the ILO's Yearbook of Labor Statistics 1995 and are for 1993. Unemployment data are taken from the International Labor Office's Yearbook of Labor Statistics 1995 and refer to 1993 and source l: _Labor force sample surveys_ and _General household sample surveys._ Nicaragua Unemployment Data are drawn from Country Economic Memorandum for 1992. The figure relates to official unemployment; it may, however, underestimate the actual unemployment since it does not take into account underemployment and informal sector employment. Data on paid employment in non-agricultural activities are taken from the ILO's Yearbook of Labor Statistics 1995 and are for 1992.

Central Government, Education and Health employment figures are drawn from the Nicaragua Civil Service Diagnostic Review of September 19,1994 and relates to 1994. Data on GDP at market prices is a 1993 estimate and is taken from World Tables 1995.

Consolidated Central Government wages and salaries are from 1994 and is taken from IMF Government Finance Statistics Yearbook, 1995. Data on wages in manufacturing (monthly basis) is taken from the International Labor Office's Yearbook of Labor Statistics 1995 and refer to 1992.

Paraguay Data on paid employment in non-agricultural activities are taken from the ILO's Yearbook of Labor Statistics 1995 and are for 1994. Data on military employment include conscripts (12,900), but do not include personnel in paramilitary units, i.e., the Special Police Service (8,000).

Peru All available data are drawn from Public Expenditure Review. Data on military include conscripts (65,500), but do not include personnel in paramilitary units, i.e., the National Police (60,000), the Coast Guards (600), and the Rondas Campesinas (2,000, est), which is a peasant self-defense force deployed mainly in emergency zone.

Suriname Data on paid employment in non-agricultural activities are taken from the ILO's Yearbook of Labor Statistics 1995 and are for 1993. Unemployment data are taken from the ILO's Yearbook of Labor Statistics 1995 and refer to 1993 and source **I:** _Labor force sample surveys_ and _General household sample surveys._

# Trinidad and Tobago

Data on paid employment in non-agricultural activities are taken from the ILO's Yearbook of Labor Statistics 1995 and are for 1993. Unemployment data are taken from the ILO's Yearbook of Labor Statistics 1995 and refer to 1993 and source l: _Labor force sample surveys_ and _General household sample surveys._ Data on military employment do not include personnel in paramilitary units, i.e. the Police force (4,800). Employment in State-owned enterprises is taken from IMF Staff Country Report No. 96/50 - Statistical Appendix of June 1996 and relates to 1993.

Uruguay Unemployment data are drawn from CIA Factbook 1995 and relate to 1994. Data on paid employment in nonagricultural activities are taken from the ILO's Yearbook of Labor Statistics 1995 and are for 1994. Central Government, Non Central Govemment, Education and Health employment data are from information made available by Uruguay Country Economist and relate to 1993. Employment in State -owned enterprise is from the same source and relates to 1993 as well. Data on wages in manufacturing (monthly basis) is taken from the International Labor Office's Yearbook of Labor Statistics 1995 and refers to 1993.

Venezuela Unemployment data are taken from the ILO's Yearbook of Labor Statistics 1995 and refer to 1993 and source **I:** _Labor force sample surveys_ and _General household sample surveys._ Data on paid employment in non-agricultural activities are taken from the ILO's Yearbook of Labor Statistics 1995 and are for 1990.

Data on GDP at market price, and wages and salaries of Consolidated Central Government are taken from IMF Government Finance Statistics and relate to 1994.

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