Compared with the same month a year ago, December seasonally adjusted production in the construction sector decreased by 0.4 percent in the euro area (EA19) and 1.4 percent in the EU28, according to Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union.
Compared with November, production in construction decreased by 0.6 percent in the euro area and by 0.1 percent in the EU28.
Average production in construction for 2015, compared with 2014, decreased by 1 percent in the euro area and increased by 0.8 percent in the EU28.
The decrease of 0.6 percent in production in construction in the euro area in December 2015, compared with November 2015, is due to civil engineering falling by 0.7 percent and building construction by 0.4 percent.
In the EU28, the decrease of 0.1 percent is due to building construction falling by 0.5 percent, while civil engineering rose by 2.6 percent.
Among Member States for which data are available, the largest decreases in production in construction were recorded in Slovenia (-12.5 percent), France (-1.6 percent) and the Netherlands (-0.9 percent), and the highest increases in Romania (+5.8 percent), Slovakia (+4.3 percent) and Sweden (+2.6 percent).
The decrease of 0.4 percent in production in construction in the euro area in December 2015, compared with December 2014, is due to civil engineering falling by 6.1 percent, while building construction rose by 0.9 percent.
In the EU28, the increase of 1.4 percent is due to civil engineering rising by 2.8 percent and building construction by 1.2 percent.
Among Member States for which data are available, the largest decreases in production in construction were recorded in Slovenia (-9.3 percent), Portugal (-4.7 percent), France (-3.6 percent) and the Netherlands (-3.1 percent), and the highest increases in Slovakia (+24.9 percent), Sweden (+15.2 percent) and Romania (+13.9 percent).
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