Statistics Norway

Construction cost index for residential buildings. 2000=100
  August 2008 Change in per cent
  July 2008-August 2008 August 2007-August 2008
Residential buildings1  140.7 0.6 5.7
Residential buildings, labour cost  143.8 1.3 6.1
Residential buildings, materials  141.9 0.1 4.4
       
Detached houses of wood  140.5 0.6 5.1
Detached houses of wood, materials  140.4 0.0 3.5
Detached houses of wood, other building work  140.0 0.5 4.4
Detached houses of wood, other building work, materials  139.3 -0.1 3.0
       
Multi-dwelling houses  143.0 0.8 6.6
Multi-dwelling houses, materials  148.4 0.2 5.9
1  Construction cost index for residential buildings is weighted by index for detached houses of wood and index for multi-dwelling houses.

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