Apartment Building Construction Price Index

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The Apartment Building Construction Price Index is a quarterly series measuring the changes in contractors' selling prices of apartment building construction. The index relates to both general and trade contractors' work and excludes the cost of land, land assembly, design, development and real estate fees.

This index is used in the calculation of the gross domestic product, which is an important indicator of the Canadian economy.

Your information may also be used by Statistics Canada for other statistical and research purposes.

Collection periods:

This is a quarterly survey. The collection for this cycle begins with questionnaire mail out around the 15th day of the second month of the quarter.

The collection dates for 2018 are:

  • from February 15 to March 21
  • from May 15 to June 18
  • from August 15 to September 18
  • from November 15 to December 19
Collection methods:
Mail survey, telephone survey, administrative sources
Survey participation:
Mandatory under the Statistics Act

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    Confidentiality

    Statistics Canada is prohibited by law from releasing any information it collects which could identify any person, business, or organization, unless consent has been given by the respondent or as permitted by the Statistics Act. Statistics Canada will use the information from this survey for statistical purposes.

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    Data sharing agreements and record linkage

    Data sharing agreements

    To reduce respondent burden, Statistics Canada has entered into data sharing agreements with provincial and territorial statistical agencies and other government organizations, which have agreed to keep the data confidential and use them only for statistical purposes. Statistics Canada will only share data from this survey with those organizations that have demonstrated a requirement to use the data.

    Section 11 of the Statistics Act provides for the sharing of information with provincial and territorial statistical agencies that meet certain conditions. These agencies must have the legislative authority to collect the same information, on a mandatory basis, and the legislation must provide substantially the same provisions for confidentiality and penalties for disclosure of confidential information as the Statistics Act. Because these agencies have the legal authority to compel businesses to provide the same information, consent is not requested and businesses may not object to the sharing of the data.

    For this survey, there are Section 11 agreements with the provincial statistical agencies of Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia.

    The shared data will be limited to information pertaining to business establishments located within the jurisdiction of the respective province.

    Record linkage

    To enhance the data from this survey, Statistics Canada may combine it with information from other surveys or from administrative sources.

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    Topics covered in the survey

    The survey asks questions about:

    • construction
    • construction price indexes
    • prices and price indexes
    • residential construction

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    Published data

    Statistics Canada publishes the results of its surveys in many formats; the following list includes the latest articles and related documents for this survey:

  • Questionnaires, definitions, data sources and methods: survey number 2330
 
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