Kenya Construction Input Price - Index Second Quarter-2021

Abstract

Kenya National Bureau of Statistics hereby releases Construction Input Price Indices (CIPI) for the second quarter of 2021. The CIPI comprises of the Building Cost Indices, Civil Engineering Cost Indices and the Overall Construction Cost Indices as shown in table 1, 2 and 3 respectively. The indices are generated from price data collected from representative sample of outlets of construction materials. The data is collected quarterly on every 15th day of the mid-month of the quarter. The overall construction cost indices increased by 1.60 per cent from 104.35 in the first quarter of 2021 to 106.02 in the second quarter of 2021. Similar increases are notable for the building cost and civil engineering cost indices by 1.55 and 1.63 per cent respectively. The increase in the indices is mainly attributed to increases in the prices of doors, paving blocks, roofing sheets, fuels, steel reinforcement bars, bitumen and glass among other construction materials in the second quarter of 2021.