The top blue-shaded section highlights price movements over varying stretches of time, as they appear to owners undertaking projects.

The blue-shaded series are all-inclusive. They include material, labor, and profit.

The unshaded section in Table 1 focuses on individual building material products (i.e., construction material inputs).

The bottom brown-shaded portion looks at the cost of inputs going into various types of structures. The inputs are weighted according to their usage in the different categories of construction.
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