The index of production in construction increased by 2.7% in the quarter ending in December 2017, in year-on-year terms (3 months moving average, working days and seasonally adjusted), up by 0.2 percentage points from the rate observed in November. In the year 2017 production in construction grew 2.2% (decrease of 3.9% in 2016).
Employment and wages and salaries indices registered year-on-year change rates respectively of 2.4% and 2.0% (2.3% and 4.2% in the previous month). Annual change rates of these indices were 2.1% and 1.9%, by the same order (decrease of 4.0% and 4.8% in the previous year).