Architectural, Engineering and Related Services Price Index, second quarter 2016
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Released: 2016-09-01
The Architectural, Engineering and Related Services Price Index (AESPI) declined by 1.1% in the second quarter, following a 2.3% drop in the first quarter.
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Architectural, Engineering and Related Services Price Index
Prices for engineering services, the largest component of the AESPI, fell 1.2% from the first quarter to the second quarter.
Prices for architectural and landscape architectural services decreased by 0.7% in the second quarter, while prices for the surveying and mapping component declined by 2.9%.
Year-over-year change
Year over year, the aggregate AESPI decreased 3.8%, as a result of lower prices for engineering services (-4.6%) and surveying and mapping services (-4.6%), which more than offset an increase in the prices of architectural and landscape architectural services (+1.6%).
Note to readers
The Architectural, Engineering and Related Services Price Index is a quarterly survey that collects information on the prices of architectural, engineering, surveying and mapping services.
With each release, data for the previous quarter may have been revised. Data are also subject to an annual revision with the release of second quarter data of the following reference year. The index is not seasonally adjusted. Data are available at the Canada level only.
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