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035 _a(Sirsi) u5881
041 _aeng
100 _aBetts, M.
245 _aBritish public expenditure on construction less that claimed?
260 _c1987
350 _a0
490 _aConstruction Management & Economics
_v5(1) Spring 1987, 13-20(8)
520 _aIn Great Britain, demands for increased public construction investment have been increasing. However, determining how much the expenditure should be increased poses problems, as there are two incomparable sets of data on public construction investment:- 1) expenditure data from public sector clients who commission construction work, and 2) output data supplied by the contractors who carry out the work. This article takes a critical look at the findings of the data, and attempts to identify the causes of the differences between the two sets of data.
650 _aCONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY
650 _aSTATISTICS
690 _aBUILT ENVIRONMENT
942 _n0
948 _c04/03/1997
999 _c3516
_d3516