Over the year, the level of construction costs increased by 7.4 %

Data of the Central Statistical Bureau show that in April 2023, compared to April 2022, the level of construction costs in Latvia increased by 7.4 %. Labour remuneration of workers increased by 8.6 %, maintenance and operational costs of machinery and equipment – by 8.0 %, but prices of building materials rose by 6.7 %.

In April 2023, compared to March, the level of construction costs decreased by 0.1 %. Prices of building materials fell by 1.2 %, but labour remuneration of workers increased by 1.7 %, and maintenance and operational costs of machinery and equipment rose by 0.7 %.

In April, the average level of construction costs was mostly affected by the decrease in prices of asphalt concrete, as well as of metal and metal products. Labour remuneration to auxiliary workers of road building, workers carrying out finishing works (roofers, plasterers, sanitary technicians and others), as well as assemblers and electricians also had an increasing impact.

Information on changes of construction costs in May 2023 will be published on 28 June.

Methodological information

The Construction Cost Index (CCI) aims to reflect average trends in the prices of construction resources. The CCI is input price index it presents price changes for the main types of resources invested in the construction.

In 2023, the data on prices of construction resources are provided by approximately 200 construction enterprises and more than 50 trade enterprises. When calculating the Construction Cost Index, the prices of building materials submitted by enterprises for the calculation of producer price indices in industry and import price index are also used. Additionally, registered consumer prices of building materials are used in calculations.

The sample includes construction enterprises with the highest value of own account construction works in 2022. The share of enterprises with the value of own account construction work exceeding EUR 1 million per year accounted for 91.5 %, in 31.8 % of which the value of own account construction work exceeded EUR 5 million per year. The criterion for the sample of trade enterprises is their turnover and specialisation.

More information on construction cost indices in Latvia is available in section of official statistics portal "Reference metadata".

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