Residential buildings with multiple dwellings: building permits index 2008-2017

This statistic shows the change in index for building permits issued for residential buildings' construction (calculated for buildings with two or more dwellings) in Portugal from 2008 to 2017. The index reached 1,017.1 points in 2008 and since then it has fallen to 234.4 index points as of 2017.

Building permits index for residential buildings with two or more dwellings in Portugal from 2008 to 2017 (in index points)

Characteristic	Index in index points
2017	234.4
2016	180.9
2015	100
2014	73.3
2013	79.2
2012	142.1
2011	238.4
2010	429.7
2009	475.4
2008*	1,017.1

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Release date

December 2018

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Region

Portugal

Survey time period

2008 to 2017

Supplementary notes

Index defined for residential buildings (other than residences for communities), taking into account the number of dwellings, in contrast to indexing square meters of useful floor area, also available in the linked dataset. As per source: "the objective of the number of dwelling building permit index is to show the future development of construction activity in terms of unit numbers, while the objective of the useful floor area building permit index to show the future development of construction activity in terms of useful floor area or an alternative size measure."

* Data has been estimated.
Index level 2015 = 100.
Unadjusted data (i.e. neither seasonally adjusted nor calendar adjusted data).

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