Construction price index
Statistical activity code: 20401
Construction price index; repair and reconstruction work price index; road maintenance work price index | |
Estonian Classification of Economic Activities (EMTAK 2008) based on NACE Rev. 2 | |
The survey covers enterprises that have shown the cost of their own construction work in Estonia as well as sellers of building materials. | |
Construction price index – expresses the change in the cost of construction characteristic of the base year taking into consideration the price changes of basic inputs. Repair and reconstruction work price index – expresses the change in the cost of repair and reconstruction work for office buildings taking into consideration the price changes of basic inputs. Road maintenance work price index – index that expresses the change in the cost of road maintenance work taking into consideration the price changes of basic inputs. | |
Enterprise | |
Enterprises whose main activity is construction (general construction activities; electrical, plumbing and other construction installation activities; enterprises specialising in specific construction activities) and which use labour, building machines and building materials in their production process Enterprises whose main activity is the wholesale of building materials and road construction enterprises FRAME List of enterprises whose main activity is construction, the wholesale of building materials and road construction. The list is generated from the Business Register for Statistical Purposes.
List of enterprises who reported construction production in the Structural Business Survey questionnaire (called EKOMAR). The list is based on the data of respondents who submitted the questionnaire as part of the statistical activity 20300 “Financial statistics of enterprises (Annual)”. | |
Estonia as a whole | |
1994–… | |
The base year for the index is 1997 = 100. |
DIRECTLY APPLICABLE LEGAL ACTS Regulation (EC) No 2019/2152 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 November 2019 on European business statistics, repealing 10 legal acts in the field of business statistics (Text with EEA relevance) Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 of 19 May 1998 concerning short-term statistics Regulation (EC) No 1158/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 July 2005 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 concerning short-term statistics Regulation (EU) No 461/2012 of 31 May 2012 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 concerning short-term statistics and Commission Regulations (EC) No 1503/2006, (EC) No 657/2007 and (EC) No 1178/2008 as regards adaptations related to the removal of the industrial new orders variables Regulation (EC) No 329/2009 of 22 April 2009 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 concerning short-term statistics as regards the updating of the list of variables, the frequency of compilation of the statistics and the levels of breakdown and aggregation to be applied to the variables Commission Regulation (EC) No 1178/2008 of 28 November 2008 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 concerning short-term statistics and Commission Regulations (EC) No 1503/2006 and (EC) No 657/2007 as regards adaptations following the revision of statistical classifications NACE and CPA Commission Regulation (EC) No 472/2008 of 29 May 2008 implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 concerning short-term statistics as regards the first base year to be applied for time series in NACE Revision 2 and, for time series prior to 2009 to be transmitted according to NACE Revision 2, the level of detail, the form, the first reference period, and the reference period Commission Regulation (EC) No 657/2007 of 14 June 2007 implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 concerning short-term statistics as regards the establishment of European sample schemes Commission Regulation (EC) No 1503/2006 of 28 September 2006 implementing and amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 concerning short-term statistics as regards definitions of variables, list of variables and frequency of data compilation Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006 establishing the statistical classification of economic activities NACE Revision 2 and amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 3037/90 as well as certain EC Regulations on specific statistical domains Regulation (EC) No 596/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 June 2009 adapting a number of instruments subject to the procedure referred to in Article 251 of the Treaty to Council Decision 1999/468/EC with regard to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny OTHER LEGAL ACTS COMMISSION DECISION of 22 February 1994 on measures to be taken for the implementation of Council Directive 89/130/EEC, Euratom on the harmonization of the compilation of gross national product at market prices (94/168/EC, Euratom) OTHER AGREEMENTS Not available |
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The news release “Construction price index” once a quarter. The news release can be viewed on the website of Statistics Estonia in the section Uudiskiri (in Estonian). | |
Not published | |
Data are published in the statistical database at https://andmed.stat.ee/en/stat under the subject area “Economy / Prices” in the following tables: IA09: Construction price index, change over previous year IA10: Construction price index, 1997 = 100 (quarters) IA11: Construction price index, 1994 = 100 (months) IA12: Repair and reconstruction work price index, change over previous year IA13: Repair and reconstruction work price index, 1997 = 100 (quarters) IA14: Repair and reconstruction work price index, 1997 = 100 (months) IA143: Road maintenance work price index, change over previous year IA144: Road maintenance work price index, 4th quarter 2006 = 100 (quarters) | |
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Data serve as input for statistical activities 20103 “Construction volume indices”, 20405 “Agricultural input price index”, 20412 “Dwelling price index and owner-occupied housing price index”, 21401 “National accounts (annual)”, 21405 “National accounts (quarterly)”, 21406 “Regional GDP” and 21408 “Supply and use tables”. | |
Producer Price Index Manual. Theory and Practice, International Monetary Fund (2004) http://www.imf.org/external/np/sta/tegppi/index.htm https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/ppi/2010/manual/ppi.pdf Methodology of short-term business statistics. Interpretation and guidelines, Eurostat (2006) | |
The reports from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament concerning Short-Term Statistics, PEEI in focus |
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Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications Ministry of Finance Eesti Pank (central bank of Estonia) Estonian Association of Construction Entrepreneurs Association of Construction Material Producers of Estonia Tallinn city government | |
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In compliance with with the volume and deadlines of the European Union requirements: Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 of 19 May 1998 concerning short-term statistics; Regulation (EC) No 1158/2005 of the European Parliament oand of the Council of 6 July 2005 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 concerning short-term statistics |
The construction price index (CPI) covers entire country and are comparable with other European Union countries. | |
The construction price indices (CPI) are comparable across time. The indices can be chain-linked to make comparisons over time. | |
There are no direct benchmark figures to check cross domain coherence. | |
The internal consistency of the data is ensured by the use of a common methodology for data collection and data aggregation. The sub-indices are coherent with the total index. |
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The published data may be revised if the methodology is modified, errors are discovered, new or better data become available. |
SURVEY DATA Total population is 1,700 construction companies and 100 wholesale companies of wood, construction materials and sanitary equipment as well as road construction companies. The sample includes 85 construction companies and 70 wholesale companies of wood, construction materials and sanitary equipment as well as road construction companies. An expert choice of construction companies is made. Wholesale companies of wood, construction materials and sanitary equipment and road construction companies are sampled by sales volume of construction materials. ADMINISTRATIVE DATA Not used DATA FROM OTHER STATISTICAL ACTIVITIES Data from statistical activities 20007 “Financial statistics of enterprises (quarterly)”, 20300 “Financial statistics of enterprises (annual)”, 20407 “Consumer Price Index” and 20408 “Producer Price Index of Industrial Output” are used. | |
Monthly | |
Data are collected and the submission of questionnaires is monitored through eSTAT (the web channel for electronic data submission). The questionnaires have been designed for independent completion in eSTAT and include instructions and controls. The questionnaires and information about data submission are available on the website of Statistics Estonia in the section Questionnaires. Data are collected with the monthly official statistics questionnaires “Construction price” and “Price of construction materials”. Price information is collected by sample survey, which includes Estonian construction and wholesale enterprises and retail trade enterprises of ten cities. | |
The input data is checked and, if necessary, corrected according to specified rules. The compliance of estimated statistics with the quality requirements is checked as well: comparisons are made with previous periods, internal coherence, the coverage of the total population and the response rate are checked. | |
On the bases of collected data Laspeyres-type price indices are calculated. Microdata are aggregated on the required level. The calculation of the construction price index covers four groups of buildings – detached houses, apartment buildings, industrial buildings and office buildings. Basic inputs are divided into three main groups: labour force, building materials and building machines. In repair and reconstruction work price index basic inputs are divided into three main groups: labour force, building materials and building machines. The annual index has been calculated as the average of twelve months. | |
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