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 StatBank service, please click here 

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/

For further information contact:

Kevin Phelan, Statistician (021 453 5208)

or

Mary Duggan, Higher Executive Officer (021 453 5584)

Structural Business Statistics: Results, Analysis & Publications

Central Statistics Office

Phone: LoCall 1890 313 414 / (021) 453 5000 / (01) 498 4000

Fax No.: (021) 453 5553

Internet: http://www.cso.ie/en/index.html

E- mail: Industry_Rap@cso.ie

Central Statistics Office                                         22 June 2012                                

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