Various indices for Previous Construction Bases (stopped)
Documentation on methodology
The other indices are cost indices of the various activities in the construction and
landscape architecture sectors listed under 6 items according to an approach towards
analytical accounting: “cost of labour” now called “wages and charges”, “materials”,
“equipment”, “energy”, “transport”, “miscellaneous costs”, similar to the “KLEMST”
approach used by productivity economists (K = capital for “equipment”, L = labour
for “labour”, E = energy for “energy”, M = materials for “materials”, S = services
for “miscellaneous costs”, T = transport for “transport”).
The items are calculated according to a Lowe's aggregation-chaining technique. The
index level of the item in the previous month is multiplied by the weighted mean of
the variations in prices of the basic indices composing the item.
(For further details, see also methodological note)
- Various indices for construction (old base) (pdf, en, 66 Ko)