How useful and reliable are construction statistics?

Building Research and Information

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 220-229

  Briscoe, Geoff ^a  

^a Institute for Clean Growth and Future Mobility   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Construction performance; Data collection; Employment; Output; Productivity; Reliability; Resource measures; Statistics

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; MARKETING; PERSONNEL; PRODUCTIVITY; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS; STATISTICS;

CONSTRUCTION PERFORMANCE; DATA COLLECTION; OUTPUT; RESOURCE MEASURES;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY;

EID: 33646380594     PISSN: 09613218     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09613210600589878     Document Type: Article

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