Construction Data US — ConstructAlpha — Core: US Construction Macro | 777,360 County–Month Rows — 20-Year Regional Macro Spine (2005–2024)

ConstructAlpha Intelligence Deck Core — US Construction County×Month Spine (2005–2024) In one sentence ConstructAlpha Core is a clean county-month construction dataset for the U.S. (2005–2024) that unifies permits, construction employment/wages, and national construction context into a single analytics-ready Parquet spine. What problem this solves Construction analytics is fragmented across agencies and granularities (county-annual, national-monthly, transactional feeds). ConstructAlpha turns that into a stable time series panel so you can: - compare counties consistently, - build regional indicators, - and add your own private signals on top (sales, projects, materials, credit, etc.). What you get (deliverables) Base spine file (as documented) - File: ConstructAlpha_Deck_v1.0.parquet - Rows: 777,360 (240 months × 3,239 counties) - Grain: County–Month (guaranteed one row per county-month) Integrated sources (documented) County-level: - Census BPS building permits (units/value) - BLS QCEW construction employment and wages (private ownership, total construction) National context broadcasted to all counties: - FRED PPI material inputs (e.g., concrete ingredients) - Census construction spending (residential/non-residential) - OSHA inspections/penalties - USASpending federal construction awards aggregated to month Key columns (buyer-facing summary) - Identifiers: ref_month, county_fips - Local fundamentals: permits and construction labor metrics - Macro context: national PPI, spen