About the Northern Ireland House Price Index
Detailed information on the background, methodology and data used to create the NI House Price Index (HPI) can be viewed below.
Methodology behind the Northern Ireland House Price Index
The detailed methodology behind the Land & Property Services (LPS)/ NISRA House Price Index (HPI) is given in the attached report.
Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) Compliance Statements
A number of OSR compliance statements have been published on this website. These include:
- Data Management Approach and Confidentiality Policy
- Public involvement and engagement strategy
- Quality Management Approach
- Release Practice Policy
- Revisions and Corrections Policy
- Statement of Compliance with the Code of Practice for Statistics
- Statistical Work Programme
Quality report
This section provides information on the quality of data used to produce the NI HPI statistics report and the statistical time series. Further information can be found by visiting the links below.
- Northern Ireland House Price Index - Data quality report
- Northern Ireland House Price Index - Quality assurance of administrative data
- Quality assurance of ACORN (CACI) socio-demographic category
- Quality assurance of all data used to calculate the UK House Price Index
Revisions
Under the Trustworthiness principal of the Code of Practice, there are standards around being transparent. This includes ensuring revisions and corrections of errors are done transparently and as soon as possible, being clear about the nature and scale of change. The below document provides information on the LPS Valuation Statistics policy in line with the Code on this.
Further information can be found by visiting the links below.