Wage data suppression. I used to think, mistakenly, that the government was not collecting data on wages (“Is there any progress in real wages?” 5/21/15). Then I learned that wage data have been collected in the government’s quarterly Labor Force Survey (LFS) for years. That would simply maintain the real income of the average worker. Not to target for any increase would, implicitly, be expecting the average worker’s real income to fall.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer October 11, 2019 21:00 UTC