Bank of Israel - Main Israeli economic data

Main Israeli economic data

Report production time: 01-Jan-2009, 11:41:38

BANK OF ISRAEL - RESEARCH DEPARTMENT

MAIN ISRAELI ECONOMIC DATA

CONSTRUCTION

I-2: RESIDENTIAL BUILDING ACTIVITY

(No. of dwellings in the whole country, unadjusted data)

	Starts			Completions
	Total	Private sector	Public sector	Total	Private sector	Public sector
	1	2	3	4	5	6
Monthly average
2004	2,411	1,960	451	2,737	2,016	721
2005	2,550	2,110	440	2,703	2,020	683
2006	2,501	2,145	356	2,528	2,067	461
2007	2,507	2,167	340	2,352	1,940	412
2008	2,469	2,151	318	2,422	2,143	279
Monthly data
Jul 07	2,906	2,369	537	2,313	1,971	342
Aug 07	2,371	2,133	238	3,058	2,708	350
Sep 07	2,404	2,338	66	1,772	1,481	291
Oct 07	2,176	1,902	274	1,985	1,482	503
Nov 07	2,857	2,328	529	1,862	1,518	344
Dec 07	2,223	1,812	411	2,265	1,854	411
Jan 08	2,685	2,107	578	2,663	2,217	446
Feb 08	1,982	1,676	306	1,936	1,854	82
Mar 08	2,761	2,161	600	3,301	2,780	521
Apr 08	2,007	1,744	263	2,185	1,942	243
May 08	2,424	2,187	237	2,199	1,965	234
Jun 08	2,670	2,377	293	2,440	2,251	189
Jul 08	3,187	2,733	454	2,429	2,088	341
Aug 08	3,032	2,839	193	2,501	2,370	131
Sep 08	1,893	1,791	102	2,563	2,284	279
Oct 08	2,049	1,896	153	2,006	1,682	324
Annual rate of change (year - on - year)
2004	-4.8	3.6	-29.1	-4.1	-4.7	-2.4
2005	5.8	7.6	-2.3	-1.3	0.2	-5.3
2006	-1.9	1.7	-19.2	-6.5	2.3	-32.5
2007	0.2	1.0	-4.4	-7.0	-6.2	-10.7
Over equivalent period in preceding year¹
Sep 08	-0.8	-1.7	5.6	0.5	7.2	-33.1
Oct 08	-1.3	-1.6	1.2	0.5	7.7	-33.4
Quarter-on-quarter²
2006:4	13.4	10.7	33.8	27.2	14.0	115.0
2007:1	6.9	6.9	6.7	-2.2	0.6	-12.2
2007:2	-8.8	-7.7	-15.7	-23.4	-19.5	-38.9
2007:3	6.3	8.6	-9.2	10.0	12.7	-4.1
2007:4	-5.5	-11.7	44.4	-14.4	-21.2	28.0
2008:1	2.4	-1.6	22.2	29.3	41.1	-16.6
2008:2	-4.4	6.1	-46.6	-13.6	-10.1	-36.5
2008:3	14.2	16.7	-5.5	9.8	9.5	12.8

Notes to table:

(1) Based on unadjusted cumulative data to current work month.

(2) Based on unadjusted data.

SOURCE: Central Bureau of Statistics, Bank of Israel computations.

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