Building and Construction Inquiry 2010

Micro enterprises in the Construction Sector in 2010 accounted for 38% of Construction Gross Value Added

The Central Statistics Office today publishes results from the 2010 Building and Construction Inquiry. These results are available on CSO’s Database Direct service, please see: http://cso.ie/shorturl.aspx/113

Main results from the survey are as follows:

Just under 32,300 enterprises were engaged in Building and Construction in 2010 of which over 95% were micro enterprises (less than 10 persons engaged)
Turnover of these enterprises exceeded €9.1 bn in 2010
The number of persons engaged in these enterprises was just over 94,600

The Building and Construction Inquiry is a sample survey covering all enterprises which are wholly or principally involved in construction. It consists of a census of enterprises with 20 or more persons engaged and a random sample of the smaller units stratified by activity (NACE Revision 2) and employment size class.

For further information on the NACE Rev. 2 classification of industrial activity, visit the CSO website:

http://www.cso.ie/en/surveysandmethodology/classifications/classificationofindustrialactivity/