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ISSN 1334-0565

 

YEAR: XLVI.

ZAGREB, 20 OCTOBER, 2009

NUMBER: 3.1.1/8.

 

 

OBLIGED TO NOTIFY DATA SOURCE

 

 

CONSTRUCTION WORK INDICES, AUGUST 2009

 

In August 2009, construction works decreased by 7.1%, as compared to August 2008.

 

Construction works in the period from January to August 2009 decreased by 3.7%, as compared to the period from January to August 2008.

 

In August 2009:

-     by type of constructions, 47.3% out of the total working hours were done on buildings and 52.7% on civil engineering works;

-     by type of works, 60.5% out of the total working hours were done on new constructions and 39.5% on reconstructions, repairs and maintenance.

 

 

1.     TOTAL VOLUME INDICES OF CONSTRUCTION WORKS1)

 

Ø 2005. = 100

2009.
Ø 2006.

2009.
Ø 2007.

2009.
Ø 2008.

2009.
2006.

2009.
2007.

2009.
2008.

Chain
indices

2007.

2008.

2009.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Month

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I.

98,7

109,1

103,0

94,1

91,9

82,2

118,8

104,4

94,4

88,4

II.

101,5

116,7

114,5

104,6

102,2

91,4

121,5

112,8

98,1

111,2

III.

115,4

122,1

129,5

118,3

115,6

103,4

112,3

112,2

106,1

113,1

IV.

109,6

133,0

127,3

116,3

113,6

101,6

119,2

116,1

95,7

98,3

V.

122,7

130,7

124,2

113,5

110,8

99,1

102,4

101,2

95,0

97,6

VI.

111,4

127,8

120,9

110,5

107,9

96,5

104,4

108,5

94,6

97,3

VII.

118,1

135,9

127,4

116,4

113,7

101,7

111,6

107,9

93,7

105,4

VIII.

117,1

119,4

110,9

101,4

99,0

88,5

97,3

94,7

92,9

87,1

I. – VIII.

111,8

124,3

119,7

109,4

106,8

95,5

110,3

107,1

96,3

-

 

 

1) Basic indices (working-day and seasonally non-adjusted)

 

 

2.     TIME SERIES OF TOTAL VOLUME INDICES OF CONSTRUCTION WORKS

Æ 2005. = 100

 

I.

II.

III.

IV.

V.

VI.

VII.

VIII.

IX.

X.

XI.

XII.

 

2007.

Basic indices

98,7

101,5

115,4

109,6

122,7

111,4

118,1

117,1

113,4

122,4

114,2

100,3

Seasonally adjusted indices

117,8

116,8

111,4

107,1

113,0

109,1

111,0

114,3

111,8

114,8

113,4

115,0

Trend indices

115,9

115,2

111,9

110,1

110,5

110,6

111,4

112,7

113,2

113,7

114,2

114,9

 

2008.

Basic indices

109,1

116,7

122,1

133,0

130,7

127,8

135,9

119,4

133,9

135,4

123,1

116,4

Seasonally adjusted indices

129,5

124,1

123,8

125,7

123,3

123,1

125,2

124,5

127,0

126,9

124,9

127,8

Trend indices

115,6

116,1

117,7

119,7

120,6

121,5

122,8

124,1

125,4

125,8

125,9

126,5

 

2009.

Basic indices

103,0

114,5

129,5

127,3

124,2

120,9

127,4

110,9

 

 

 

 

Seasonally adjusted indices

126,8

127,8

124,5

123,5

117,6

118,9

117,5

113,9

 

 

 

 

Trend indices

126,9

126,4

124,8

122,2

119,6

118,2

116,8

115,1

 

 

 

 

 

 

3.     TOTAL VOLUME INDICES OF CONSTRUCTION WORKS, BY TYPE OF CONSTRUCTIONS1)

Ø 2005. = 100

 

2006.

2007.

2008.

Ø I. – VIII.

2008.

2009.

2008.

2009.

XII.

I.

II.

III.

IV.

V.

VI.

VII.

VIII.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

109,4

112,1

125,3

124,3

119,7

116,4

103,0

114,5

129,5

127,3

124,2

120,9

127,4

110,9

Buildings

111,7

115,8

138,1

137,6

132,1

128,5

120,9

131,8

145,2

139,5

133,4

130,1

137,1

118,9

Civil engineering works

107,6

109,1

115,2

113,9

109,9

106,9

88,9

100,8

117,1

117,7

116,9

113,6

119,8

104,6

 

 

1) Basic indices (working-day and seasonally non-adjusted)

 

 

4.     COMPOSITION OF HOURS WORKED ON SITES, BY TYPE OF CONSTRUCTIONS AND TYPE OF WORKS

%

 

VIII. 2009.

I. – VIII. 2009.

 

Total

New
constructions

Other works1)

Total

New
 constructions

Other works1)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

100,0

60,5

39,5

100,0

61,0

39,0

On buildings

47,3

35,4

11,9

48,6

36,3

12,3

On civil engineering works

52,7

25,1

27,6

51,4

24,7

26,7

 

 

1)  Reconstructions, repair works and maintenance of existing constructions

 

 


NOTES ON METHODOLOGY

 

Sources and methods of data collection

 

Data on construction presented in this publication are collected through reporting method by using the Monthly Report on Construction (GRAĐ-21/M form) and the Quarterly Report on Construction (GRAĐ-21/3M).

 

Coverage and comparability

 

The Monthly Report on construction is collected from legal entities and parts  thereof employing 20 or more persons classified in the Register of Business Entities to section F Construction according to the NKD 2007. About 900 reporting units are included in the average annual dynamics.

 

 

Data refer to all construction works (new constructions and reconstructions, maintenance and repair works on existing constructions) done on the territory of the Republic of Croatia.

 

The coverage of construction activities is harmonised with the NKD 2007. section F Construction (NN, No. 58/07). Constructions and works are classified according to the Classifications of Types of Constructions KVG (NN, No. 11/98). Both classifications are harmonised with appropriate classifications prescribed by Eurostat (NACE rev. 2; Classifications of Types of Constructions CC, final version).

 

Index method

 

Total volume index of construction is based on the number of hours worked on sites, according to the Methodology of short-Term Business Statistics, Eurostat 2002.

The seasonal adjustment was done by applying the programme interface "Demetra", version 2.2 – Eurostat by using the TRAMO/SEATS Method (version of April 2005) on monthly index series (Ø 2005 = 100), which begins with the index for January 1998.

 

The trend indices are a series of seasonally adjusted indices with the exclusion of the influence of random components. The prolongation of the original index series by adding new monthly data may cause subsequent changes in seasonally adjusted series and trend for several previous months, due to characteristics of the applied method of seasonal adjustment.

 

Seasonally adjusted series of volume indices of construction works calculated by using the TRAMO/SEATS Method are comparable to those published by Eurostat.

 

We have a special note to users of these data: until February 2009, the X-12-ARIMA Method was implemented (0.2.8 version), while the TRAMO/SEATS Method has been implemented since March 2009. This is the reason why all data for previous months, that is, data series for previous years, have also been processed by using the TRAMO/SEATS Method.

 

More detailed methodology notes of these inquiries are published in NN, No. 11/98.

 

Abbreviations

 

Eurostat         Statistical Office of the European Communities

NACE             Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the
                       European Community

NKD 2007.     National Classification of Activities, 2007 version

NN                  Narodne novine, official gazette of the Republic of
                       Croatia

 

Symbols

 

-  no occurrence