The first two issues contain prices only. Prices are given from 1861 and wages from 1873. In 1906 the price figures for 1861-68 are omitted and from 1907 both prices and wages are given for the past 25 years.
Monthly to August 1941 and from September 1945 to February 1947. During the war years and from 1947 annual figures were published in August, and from 1950 six-monthly figures were also published in February.