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Compiling agency: Statistics Austria

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Statistics about the construction of buildings and dwellings, building permits related to new buildings only (excluding rebuilding, reconstruction, extension, building up, a.s.o.).

Variable 150101 - number of permitted dwellings in new residential buildings (with one and two or more dwellings)

Variable 150102 - useful floor area or equivalent (sqm) in new buildings (residential buildings with one and  two or more dwellings, residences for communities, office buildings and contigued - in the sum of all remaining - non-residential buildings).

15 June 2025

In Austria a building permission is an authorization that must be granted by a local government before the construction of new units can legally occur. Statistical evaluations about permits are generally related to (frequencies and averages of) buildings and (contained) dwellings (for STSCONS-building-permits the obsevation/monitoring is related to new buildings only excluding permissions for rebuilding, reconstruction, extension, building up, a.s.o.).

The definitions of CR 1503/2006 are profoundly applied for both indicators.

Reporting unit: Building authorities (local authorities) of the communities in Austria.

Observation unit(s): Authorised new buildings and contained dwellings (excluding rebuilding, reconstruction, extension, building up, a.s.o.)

Authorised new buildings and contained dwellings  (excluding rebuilding, reconstruction, extension, building up, a.s.o.) in reference / reporting periods (quarterly).

Due to the Classification CPA the data of Variable 150101- authorized dwellings - is related to new residential buildings with one (CPA 41.00.11) and with two or more dwellings (CPA 41.00.12 and 41.00.13)

Due to the Classification CPA the data of Variable 150102- useful floorspace (sqm) - is related to new residential buildings with one (CPA 41.00.11) and with two or more dwellings (CPA 41.00.12 and 41.00.13), to new residences for communities (CPA 41.00.14), to new office buildings (CPA 41.00.23) and contigued the (sum of all) remaining new non-residential buildings (CPA 41.00.21, 41.00.22, 41.00.24, 41.00.25, 41.00.26, 41.00.27, 41.00.28, 41.00.29)

Totality of the national territory

Quarterly routine

Administrative data, under-coverage of the data from 2005 till 2009 because of underreporting

Number of dwellings and useful net floor aeras within the building

Missing data are estimated corresponding to the “retroactive registrations”

Type of source is administrative register maintained by the local / building authorities (Address, Buildings and Dwellings Register).

Quarterly (see 8.1 resp. 8.2)

The length of time between data availability and the event or phenomenon they describe is about 90 days.

Basically there are no differences in timeliness between the different aggregation levels or between the statistical variables.

The same statistical concepts are applied in the entire national territory (no discrepancies)

For Variable 150101 - authorized dwellings in new residential buildings with one (CPA 41.00.11) and two or more dwellings (CPA 41.00.12 and 41.00.13) comparable (nationally) time series are available in different frequencies (it might go longer back in history).

For Variable 150102 - authorized useable floor areas in new buildings - there is no data before reference year 2005 available. At present, estimates are not yet possible due to too many uncertainties.