This page contains all important previous notifications from our Construction Spending main page. Notifications often appear in the announcements section at the right side of our main page and are there to notify you about announcements and supplemental statistical tables.
Geographic data for Private Nonresidential Construction (1993-2010) are available.
In the May 2011 press release, normal revisions to the unadjusted and seasonally adjusted data will revise back to January 2009.
New Length of Time data for Private Nonresidential, Private Multifamily and State and Local Construction are available. Go to the Related Studies menu on our website.
Geographic data for Private Nonresidential Construction (1993-2009) are available. Go to the Private Construction menu on our website.
In the May 2010 press release, revisions to unadjusted and seasonally adjusted data will revise back to January 2004 to incorporate and benchmark to the 2008 detailed structures data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Annual Capital Expenditures Survey.
New Length of Time data for Private Nonresidential, Private Multifamily and State and Local Construction are available. Go to the Related Studies menu on our website.
Geographic data for Private Nonresidential Construction (1993-2008) are available. Go to the Private Construction menu on our website.
In the May 2009 press release, normal revisions to the unadjusted and seasonally adjusted data were made back to January 2007.
New Length of Time data for Private Nonresidential, Private Multifamily and State and Local Construction are available. Go to the Related Studies menu on our website.
Geographic data for Private Nonresidential Construction (1993-2007) are available. Go to the Private Construction menu on our website.
Effective with this May 2008 press release, expenditures on private residential improvements to rental, vacant, and seasonal properties are not included in the construction spending data. To allow comparable time series analysis, these expenditures have been removed from our historic data back to January 1993. (see tables) The construction spending estimate will continue to include expenditures on residential improvements to owner-occupied structures. In addition, seasonally adjusted federal construction revised back to 1996.
New Length of Time data for Private Nonresidential, Private Multifamily and State and Local Construction are available under the Related Studies link.
New Length of Time data for Private Nonresidential, Private Multifamily and State and Local Construction are available under the Related Studies link.
Geographic data for Private Nonresidential Construction (1993 - 2005) are available. Go to the Private Construction menu on our website.
In the May 2006 press release, normal revisions to the unadjusted and seasonally adjusted data were made back to January 2003.
New Length of Time data for Private Nonresidential, Private Multifamily
and State and Local Construction
are available. Go to the Related Studies menu on our website.
Effective with this release, four published series, Total Construction,
Total Residential, Total Private, and Total Private
Residential, have been revised back to January 2004. The underlying
cause for these revisions is in the unpublished
category of Private Residential Improvements.
Geographic data for Private Nonresidential Construction (1993-2004)
are available. Go to the Private Construction
Historic menu on our website.
In this May 2005 press release, revisions to unadjusted and seasonally
adjusted data were made back to January 1998 to
incorporate and benchmark to the 2003 detailed structures data from
the U.S. Census Bureau’s Annual Capital
Expenditures Survey.
In this May 2004 press release, normal revisions to unadjusted and seasonally adjusted data were made back to May 2000.
This is the first release of construction spending data in a new and improved format. Also, the constant (1996 dollars) series has been discontinued.
Beginning in 1993, the Construction Expenditures Branch of the
Manufacturing and Construction Division began collecting "Value
of Construction Put in Place" data for private nonresidential
and state and local government projects using a new classification
system. This new system allows the classification of construction
with one generalized coding scheme which bases project types on
their end usage instead of building/nonbuilding types. Data collection
for federal construction at the detailed project level began in
January 2002.
With the changes in project classifications, data now presented
are not directly comparable with those data previously published
in the regular-format press releases and tables. Direct comparisons
can only be made at the total, total private, total state and local,
total federal, and total public levels for annual and not seasonally
adjusted monthly data. Although some categories (lodging, office,
educational, religious) seem identical to previously published data,
there have been changes within the classifications that make these
values incomparable. For example, private medical office buildings
were classified as "office" buildings previously, but
under the new classification these buildings are in "health
care."
In addition, seasonally adjusted estimates in the new tables are
not, in general, equal to the previously published seasonally adjusted
estimates at any level of aggregation because: 1) the seasonal adjustment
models, parameters, and factors for the two sets of estimates were
developed from data covering different time spans, and 2) seasonal
adjustment factors were derived directly for the previously published
type of construction (TC) categories, but the factors for some new
TC categories were derived indirectly from sub-category level seasonal
adjustment. Both the previous and new TC seasonally adjusted series
are valid. The previous TC series ended with May 2003 estimates
and only the new TC series, estimated back to 1993, continue.
This new classification system can be compared to the previous system
by the following link.
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