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4.Changes by Input Categories
118 Changes by input categories are shown in Tables 1.1 to 1.5.

The “Labour” sub-index remained unchanged during the second quarter of 2022.
Economic The “Hire of plant” sub-index remained unchanged in April 2022. It then increased 1.5% in May
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the tourism, 2022. No change was observed in June 2022.
Construction,
and The “Materials” sub-index increased by 1.2% in April 2022 mainly due to increases in the
agriculture prices of premixed concrete (0.2%), premixed mortar (0.3%), steel bars (5.7%), tiles and granite
Industries in
Mauritius (0.6%), paint (2.2%), plumbing (7.6%) and electrical installation (1.1%), partly offset by decrease
of 0.9% in the prices of both timber carpentry and timber joinery. In May 2022, the materials
sub-index increased by 0.7% mainly due to increases in the prices of premixed mortar (2.6%),
steel bars (1.2%), timber carpentry (7.1%), tiles and granite (0.6%), paint (0.6%) plumbing
(1.2%) and electrical installation (1.3%). The sub-index further increased by 0.3% in June 2022,
as a result of increases in the prices of aggregate (0.5%), premixed concrete (1.4%), premixed
mortar (0.4%), timber joinery (1.2%) and plumbing (0.5%), partly offset by contraction of 0.4% in
the prices of steel bars.
The “Transport” sub-index remained unchanged in April 2022. It increased by 25.5% in May
2022 and remained unchanged in June 2022.
The net monthly contributions of the input categories to the index during the period July 2021 to
June 2022 are shown in Table 1.4.
Quarterly averages of the monthly indices by input category and the percentage change from
quarter to quarter are shown in Table 1.5.

5.Changes by Work Category
Changes by work category are shown in Tables 2.1 to 2.5.
In April 2022, the grey building sub-index registered an increase of 1.0% to reach 127.5 from
126.2 in March 2022. This increase was mainly due to increases in the prices of premixed
concrete (0.2%), premixed mortar (0.3%) and steel bars (5.7%), partly offset by decrease of
0.9% in the prices of timber carpentry.
At the level of work categories, the main changes are as follows: “Concrete works” (0.2%),
“Reinforcement” (4.9%) and “Plumbing and drainage” (4.7%).