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This publication is categorised as a CSO Frontier Series Output. Particular care must be taken when interpreting the statistics in this release as it may use new methods which are under development and/or data sources which may be incomplete, for example, new administrative data sources.
National Accounts provide a coherent and detailed picture of a country’s whole economy using international statistical standards. For this publication we have brought together the work done in these publications and narrowed the focus from the whole economy to provide insights into the Construction sector.
This analysis of the Construction sector describes the sector in detail drawing on many CSO outputs, including:
All data taken from the Annual National Accounts uses the 2025 vintage (with reference year 2024). We also use statistics from other agencies to provide a detailed economic portrait of the Construction sector in Ireland:
This is a Frontier Publication and the evaluation of sources and methods is subject to review and improvement.
Gross Value Added (GVA) and its components are calculated in current prices throughout. GVA is given as follows:
Gross value added at factor cost:
Compensation of employees
plus
Gross mixed income
plus
Gross operating surplus
Gross value added in basic prices:
Gross value added at factor cost
plus
Non-product taxes
minus
Non-product subsidies
Gross domestic product at market prices:
Gross value added in basic prices
plus
Product taxes
minus
Product subsidies
Gross National Product:
Gross domestic product
plus
Factor income received from abroad
minus
Factor income sent abroad
Gross National Income:
Gross national product
plus
Subsidies received from abroad
minus
Subsidies sent abroad
Modified Gross National Income (GNI*):
Gross national income
minus
Depreciation on intellectual property
minus
Depreciation on leased aircrafts
minus
Net factor income on redomiciled PLCs.
Gross Fixed Capital Formation (GFCF): GFCF measures the acquisitions less disposals of fixed assets during a calendar year. More information on GFCF and assets types can be found here.
This publication groups businesses by activity (also referred to as industry) using the EU’s Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community (NACE) Rev. 2 grouping. The construction sector is broken down into a number of subsectors, as shown in Table 5.1. Some of the statistics in this publication are produced at the two-digit NACE level i.e. Construction of Buildings, Civil Engineering and Specialised Construction Activities. Where possible and appropriate, statistics are published by subsectors.
Further information on the terminology and data used in the Productivity chapter can be found here: Productivity in Ireland.
The CSO cannot publish any commercially sensitive information (for example, company wage bills), or any statistics that would allow readers to easily infer data for a single company. For this reason, data is put together into larger groups (aggregated) so that no single statistic is completely dominated by a single company. While more detail would generally be preferable, by keeping some statistics confidential, the CSO can assure survey respondents that their data will not be shared, and this provides higher quality statistics overall.
Learn about our data and confidentiality safeguards, and the steps we take to produce statistics that can be trusted by all.