Comparability

Comparability - geographical

The statistic follows international standards and is therefore comparable with similar statistics from other countries.

Comparability over time

The statistic is comparable over time and has a continuous time series from 2015 and onwards.

Coherence - cross domain

Producer price index for construction of dwellings highlights the development of the total sales price, incl. producer profits, for construction of free standing one-family houses in Denmark. The statistic is related to the Construction cost index for residential buildings (BYG42), which however uses a different price concept: Total construction cost excl. profit and non-enterprise costs, such as law, administration, architect etc. Statistics Denmark also publish statistics on the number of newly constructed dwellings, numbers of house sales, building stock etc. Producer price index for construction of dwellings is used for deflation of the National Accounts and is reported to the Danish National Archives.

Coherence - internal

The index is produced used reported prices and connected addresses for newly constructed one-family houses. To ensure that only one-family houses is included in the calculation the reported addresses are merged with information from the administrative register on dwellings (BBR).