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The prices of goods and services concern and affect many people. People pay attention to what is cheaper and how the prices change over time. When looking for a home, they enquire where, at what price and when it is most advantageous to buy or rent a dwelling. The builders, however, are interested in construction prices. All this information helps to make small and large decisions in everyday life. Statistics Estonia publishes the services producer price index, the producer price index of industrial output, the export and import price indices, the consumer price index, the construction price

The construction price index expresses the change in the cost of construction taking into consideration the price changes of basic inputs. These are divided into three main groups: labour, building materials and building machines. The calculation of the construction price index covers four groups of buildings: detached houses, blocks of flats, industrial buildings and office buildings. Price information is collected with a sample survey covering construction, rental and wholesale companies and retail enterprises in ten regions to achieve sufficient regional and statistical coverage. The