Changes in rural poverty in Perú 2004–2012

Latin American Economic Review

Table 4 Average earned income by sector

	Primary	Secondary	Tertiary
Average earned income by sector
2004
Urban	12.29	21.79	19.09
Rural	10.17	13.56	18.80
Total	10.88	20.63	19.07
2012
Urban	25.33	33.04	33.02
Rural	21.50	33.55	34.83
Total	22.92	33.10	33.15

	Primary (%)	Secondary (%)	Tertiary (%)
Yearly growth in real earnings (%)
Urban	6.5	2.4	4.1
Rural	6.8	8.9	5.0
Total	6.7	3.2	4.2

Source: author’s worksheets based on INEI surveys. Data are monthly earnings per employee
These are implicit wages = total labor income divided by total employment. The growth in real earnings in bottom panel deflate the top panels by the CPI of Peru with 2004 equal to 1.00