The CMRPI in NCR continued its upward trend as its annual rate of increase was higher at 1.2 percent in June 2020. Its annual rate in May 2020 was recorded at 1.0 percent and in June 2019, 1.4 percent. Of the eight major commodity groups, only…

The GRPI in NCR moved up at a slower annual pace of 1.2 percent in July 2020. In the previous month, its annual rate was recorded at 1.3 percent and in July 2019 at 0.8 percent. (Table A and Table 2)

The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), participated in the 6th International Conference on Big Data for Official Statistics. Undersecretary Dennis S. Mapa, Ph.D., National Statistician and Civil Registrar General, was invited to be part of the…

The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) is the government agency tasked to execute Executive Order No. 352 where all households and institutional population will be enumerated to count all members and determine their respective demographics and…

The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) clears the conduct of 2020 Occupational Wages Survey (OWS). The OWS is a biennial survey which aims to generate statistics on wage and salary administration and wage determination in collective bargaining…

At the national level, the seasonally adjusted CPI for all items went down by -0.2 percent in August 2020 compared with its index in the previous month.

The headline inflation in the Philippines eased to 2.4 percent in August 2020, from 2.7 percent in the previous month.

The Value of Production Index (VaPI) for Manufacturing sector reflected an annual decrement of -14.8 percent in July 2020, from a faster drop of -16.0 percent in the previous month.

Inflation for the bottom 30% income households at the national level decelerated further to 2.7 percent in August 2020. This brings the year-to-date inflation for this income group of consumers to 2.7 percent. In July 2020, inflation for the bottom…

Unemployment rate in July 2020 was estimated at 10.0 percent. This is higher than the unemployment rate of the same month a year ago placed at 5.4 percent, but lower than the record high 17.7 percent during April 2020.