Forecasting construction industry demand, price and productivity in Singapore: the Box-Jenkins approach

Goh Bee Hua and Teo Ho Pin

Construction Management and Economics, 2000, vol. 18, issue 5, 607-618

Abstract: In academic research, the traditional Box-Jenkins approach is widely acknowledged as a benchmark technique for univariate methods because of its structured modelling basis and acceptable forecasting performance. This study examines the versatility of this approach by applying it to analyse and forecast three distinct variables of the construction industry, namely, tender price, construction demand and productivity, based on case studies of Singapore. In order to assess the adequacy of the Box-Jenkins approach to construction industry forecasting, the models derived are evaluated on their predictive accuracy based on out-of-sample forecasts. Two measures of accuracy are adopted, the root mean-square-error (RMSE) and the mean absolute percentage error (MAPE). The conclusive findings of the study include: (1) the prediction RMSE of all three models is consistently smaller than the model's standard error, implying the models' good predictive performance; (2) the prediction MAPE of all three models consistently falls within the general acceptable limit of 10%; and (3) among the three models, the most accurate is the demand model which has the lowest MAPE, followed by the price model and the productivity model.

Keywords: Box-JENKINS Approach Forecasting Construction Demand Tender Price Productivity Accuracy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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