Table

Construction cost index for residential buildings. 2000=100
	August 2017
	Change from last month, per cent	Change from last year, per cent	Index
¹Construction cost index for residential buildings is weighted by index for detached houses of wood and index for multi-dwelling houses.
²Wage statistics for the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th quarter are includeded in the construction cost of May, August, November and February respectively.
Residential buildings¹	0.2	2.4	181.6
Residential buildings, labour cost²	0.3	1.9	188.4
Residential buildings, materials	0.1	2.8	184.9
Detached houses of wood	0.2	2.3	182.8
Detached houses of wood, materials	0.1	2.6	184.2
Detached houses of wood, other building work	0.2	2.4	183.6
Detached houses of wood, other building work, materials	0.0	2.7	183.1
Multi-dwelling houses	0.3	2.5	181.3
Multi-dwelling houses, materialsr	0.2	3.2	191.4