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Moderate price changes in construction costs
The construction costs of residential buildings increased by 0.1 per cent from July to August this year. Labour costs rose by 0.6 per cent, while material costs decreased by 0.1 per cent.
Wage statistics for the second quarter of 2011 are included in the construction costs of August 2011, and are the main reason for the cost increase from July.
From August 2010 to August 2011, the construction costs of detached houses of wood and multi-dwelling houses increased by 3.6 and 3.9 per cent respectively.
August 2011 | Change in per cent | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Residential buildings1 | 153.5 | 0.1 | 3.6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Residential buildings, labour cost | 159.3 | 0.6 | 3.1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Residential buildings, materials | 154.0 | -0.1 | 4.1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Detached houses of wood | 153.8 | 0.1 | 3.6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Detached houses of wood, materials | 152.8 | -0.1 | 3.9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Detached houses of wood, other building work | 153.5 | 0.1 | 3.6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Detached houses of wood, other building work, materials | 151.7 | -0.1 | 3.9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Multi-dwelling houses | 155.1 | 0.1 | 3.9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Multi-dwelling houses, materials | 160.9 | 0.0 | 5.0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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