The index of production in construction decreased by 4.2% in the quarter ending in December 2015, in year-on-year terms (3 months moving average, working days and seasonally adjusted), down by 0.4 percentage points from the rate observed in November. In 2015, the index of production in construction presented an annual change rate of -2.5% (change rate of -8.9% in 2014).
Employment and wages and salaries indices registered year-on-year change rates of -4.9% and 3.3% (-4.1% and -7.9 in November), respectively. The average annual change rates of these indices were -3.2% and -3.6% in 2015, by the same order.