Luxembourg - Residential Building Permits

For Luxembourg, construction permits; by typology; count of permits, count of dwellings, and cubic volume. Monthly 1994 to 2023, quarterly from 2010.

Active:

• Measurement: Unitary count (#)
• Adjustment: Not seasonally adjusted (NSA)
• Native frequency: Quarterly
• Start date: Uniformly 2010Q1
• Geo coverage: Country

Predecessor(s):

• Monthly, subnational - 1994m1 to 2023m3 (no archive specifier)
• 2005=100 - 2005m1 to 2011m12 ("_05")

Predecessor properties:

• Measurements:
  • Thousands of cubic meters (Ths. m3)
  • Fixed-base index relative to 2005 (Index 2005=100)
• Geo coverage:
  • Village of Luxembourg (ILUX_VLUX)
  • District (3x ILUX_LUnnnn)

Global concept aliases:

• HPMT
• HPMTN
• HPMTR

Building permits consists of only buildings and is split into:

• dwelling residential buildings
• and more dwelling residential buildings
• residencies for communities
• office buildings
• other buildings

The indicators are:

• Number of buildings
• Number of dwellings
• Builded [sic] volume (1000 m3)
• Useful floor area (1000 m2)

A building permit is a permission to begin work on a building project. A permit is a good indicator of the workload for the building industry.

A dwelling is one room or a group of rooms included with its accessories in a permanent building or stucturally seperated intended by the way it has been constructed to be for private habitation. A dwelling should have a seperate access to a street. The access can be direct or via a common grounds. Rooms that are detached and meant for habitation that are to be used as part of the dwelling are counted as part of the dwelling. Therefore, a dwelling may be made up of seperate buildings within the same enclosure as long as they are inteded for habitation by the same private household. 

Any part of a dwelling used for residential purposes (e.g., kitchen) is included in the measurements of useful floor area. The useful floor area is measured within the external walls and does not include, construction areas (e.g., areas of demarcation components, supports, columns, pillars, shafts, chimneys), functional areas for ancillary use (e.g., areas occupied by heating and air-conditioning installations, or by power generators), or thoroughfares (e.g., areas of stairwells, lifts, escalators).

Moody's Analytics supplements

For the defunct monthly count of permits (four concepts), we computed seasonally adjusted (SAAR) counterparts using X-13ARIMA-SEATS.

For the same concepts in the replacement quarterly variant, we back-extend (1994Q1 to 2009Q4) using the corresponding monthly series, construct an intermediate aggregate (non-residential buildings and residences for communities), and construct SA counterparts.

Yes. The source revises for two reasons:

• To fix errors
• "Normal" statistical procedures (e.g., change in methodology)

Further reading

At the source:

• Statistique sur les autorisations de bâtir » Méthodologie
• LUSTAT Data Explorer » Construction and dwelling

• Jan 2008 - Initial version.
• Jul 2012 - Addendum of SA supplement
• 11 Apr 2025, Phillip Thorne - Frequency changed: Properties, Moody's Analytics supplements.