Construction price index
Construction price index; repair and reconstruction work price index; road maintenance work price index | |
Estonian Classification of Economic Activities (EMTAK) based on NACE | |
The survey covers enterprises that have reported the cost of their own construction work in Estonia as well as sellers of building materials and rental enterprises of building machinery. | |
Construction price index – an index that 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 – an index that 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 – an 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, as well as 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 that 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) 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 Official Statistics Act 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 on the construction price index is published once a quarter. The news release can be read on Statistics Estonia's website in the section News. | |
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). | |
The dissemination of data collected for the purpose of producing official statistics is guided by the requirements provided for in §§ 33, 34, 35, 36 and 38 of the Official Statistics Act. Access to microdata and anonymisation of microdata are regulated by Statistics Estonia’s procedure for dissemination of confidential data for scientific purposes. | |
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) Methodology of short-term business statistics. Interpretation and guidelines, Eurostat (2006) | |
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Statistics Estonia performs all statistical activities according to an international model (Generic Statistical Business Process Model – GSBPM). According to the GSBPM, the final phase of statistical activities is overall evaluation using information gathered in each phase or subprocess; this information can take many forms, including feedback from users, process metadata, system metrics and suggestions from employees. This information is used to prepare the evaluation report which outlines all the quality problems related to the specific statistical activity and serves as input for improvement actions. |
Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications; Ministry of Finance; Eesti Pank (central bank of Estonia); Estonian Association of Construction Entrepreneurs | |
Since 1996, Statistics Estonia has conducted reputation and user satisfaction surveys. All results are available on Statistics Estonia's website in the section User surveys. | |
In compliance with with the volume and deadlines of the European Union requirements: Regulation (EU) 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). |
The construction price index (CPI) covers the entire country and is 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. |
The data revision policy and notification of corrections are described on Statistics Estonia's website in the section Principles of dissemination of official statistics. | |
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 1,800 construction enterprises and 100 wholesale enterprises of wood, construction materials and sanitary equipment as well as road construction enterprises. The sample includes 95 construction enterprises and 45 wholesale enterprises of wood, construction materials and sanitary equipment as well as road construction enterprises. An expert choice of construction enterprises is made. Wholesale enterprises of wood, construction materials and sanitary equipment and road construction enterprises 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 a web-based data submission self-service environment. The questionnaires have been designed for independent completion in the self-service environment and include instructions and controls. The questionnaires and information about data submission are available on Statistics Estonia's website in the section Questionnaires. Data are collected with the monthly official statistics questionnaires 1061 “Construction price” and 1062 “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 basis 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 12 months. | |
Not applied |