Construction Work Done, Australia, Preliminary, December 2023 – Australian Bureau of Statistics

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Provides preliminary estimates of value of total construction work done, building work done and engineering construction work done
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In seasonally adjusted terms in the December quarter:
The trend estimate for total construction work done rose 1.0%.
 
 
a. Reference year for Chain Volume Measures is 2021-22.
The value of total construction work done rose 0.7% in the December quarter, in seasonally adjusted terms. The increase was driven by engineering work, which rose 2.7% in the December quarter and is 15.0% higher than the same time last year. Building work done fell 1.1% and is 3.6% higher than the same time last year.
The trend estimate for total construction work done rose 1.0% in the December quarter.
a. Reference year for Chain Volume Measures is 2021-22.
The value of building work done fell 1.1% in the December quarter, in seasonally adjusted terms. The decrease was driven by a fall in residential building work, which decreased 5.2% in the December quarter and is 1.9% lower than at the same time last year. Non-residential building work done rose 5.0% in the December quarter, 12.1% higher than at the same time last year.
The trend estimate for total building work done rose 0.3% in the December quarter.
Total construction work done fell in New South Wales and South Australia, whilst total construction work done rose in all other states and territories.
This publication provides an early indication of trends in building and engineering construction activity. The data are preliminary estimates with a response rate of approximately 70% of surveyed construction entities during the quarter. This is lower than the average response rate and places the data at increased risk of revision when results are updated in Engineering Construction Activity, Australia on 27 March 2024 and in Building Activity, Australia on 10 April 2024.
Mining projects tend to be complex in structure and comprise a number of different investment activities including exploration, engineering construction, plant and equipment and buildings. A feature article released in the March 2012 issue of Private New Capital Expenditure and Expected Expenditure, Australia provides a summary of the conceptual basis of the relevant ABS publications that measure investment in Australia, using a hypothetical mining project to illustrate how this investment is reflected in ABS data.
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This release previously used catalogue number 8755.0.
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