Construction spending in US up nearly 5 percent in Q1

Friday, 03 May 2013 01:31:31 (GMT+3)   |   San Diego
       

The US Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce announced Wednesday that construction spending during March 2013 was estimated at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $856.7 billion, 1.7 percent below the revised February estimate of $871.2 billion. The March figure is 4.8 percent above the March 2012 estimate of $817.8 billion. During the first three months of this year, construction spending amounted to $181.7 billion, 4.7 percent above the $173.6 billion for the same period in 2012.

Spending on private construction was at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $598.4 billion, 0.6 percent below the revised February estimate of $602 billion. Residential construction was at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $294.9 billion in March, 0.4 percent above the revised February estimate of $293.8 billion. Nonresidential construction was at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $303.5 billion in March, 1.5 percent below the revised February estimate of $308.2 billion.

In March, the estimated seasonally adjusted annual rate of public construction spending was $258.3 billion, 4.1 percent below the revised February estimate of $269.2 billion.


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