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The data compilation provides a review on the calculation of changing construction prices for the Federal Republic of Germany until 2005, categorized by the construction types. The statistics on construction prices has been introduced 1958 with the aim to determine the changes of the prices and in addition to reflect statistically the dynamics of prices of important building types. The development of construction prices is an important part of the producer price statistics. Similar to other producer price indexes the calculations’ basis on construction costs are two different requirements of the needed data: a) measurement of price trends for selected service items of construction, that is the price collection of concrete construction works, b) summary of individual measures on representative service items by weighting them with the structure of the works by building types (weighting scheme). Data tables in HISTAT: A.01a Price index on residential building: building work at the building, pure construction costs (1913-2005) A.01b Replacement values of buildings constructed in the period 1913/1914, incl. sales tax / value added tax (1913-2005) A.02 Price index of new buildings and maintenance, prices of construction land (1958-2005) A.03 Price indices of single family houses in prefabricated and conventional construction (1968-2005) A.04a Prices of constuction land: building areas in total (1962-1999) A.04b Purchase value of construction land: building areas in total (1962-2005)