Table 1 Frequency index and its ranking.
From: An investigation study on residential buildings for cost overrun
S.No. | Category influence Cost overrun | Number of responses | Frequency Index | Ranking | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rarely (4) | Sometimes (3) | Often (2) | Always (1) | ||||
1 | Periodic Design Changes | 6 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0.722 | 6 |
2 | Non-timely payment from Client to contractor | 3 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 0.667 | 10 |
3 | Inadequate Skilled Labour | 8 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0.819 | 3 |
4 | Inadequate supervision | 7 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0.764 | 5 |
5 | Non-coordination of Contractor and Designer | 4 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 0.708 | 8 |
6 | Lack of Inspection by Designer | 6 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 0.681 | 9 |
7 | Climatic variation on execution of project | 3 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 0.611 | 11 |
8 | Hike in Materials Cost | 2 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 0.556 | 12 |
9 | Overall lag in schedule of work | 10 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0.861 | 1 |
10 | Rework/ Extra work in Unforeseen situation | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0.819 | 2 |
11 | Inadequate design and specification | 7 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0.764 | 4 |
12 | Lack of Labour Performance | 6 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 0.708 | 7 |
