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Construction costs, labor and demand, straight from the agencies

Every number on this site comes from the agency that publishes it: BLS, Census, EIA, Treasury, the New York Fed and FHWA. Code pulls each series on a schedule and checks it before it shows up here. The weekly read on what it means for a job is The Look-Ahead, in Means and Methods.

Data last changed

Sparklines cover the last years. "Unusual move" means the latest change sits or more standard deviations from that series' normal change over the same window. How the numbers are checked.