The deseasonalized palay production for the first quarter of 2019 was 4,692 thousand metric tons, lower by 0.4 percent compared with the fourth quarter of 2018 output of 4,711 thousand metric tons. From 2011 to 2019, the highest deseasonalized palay…

As of 01 April 2019, the total rice stocks inventory was estimated at 2,629.03 thousand metric tons. The level of stocks was 20.5 percent above the previous year’s record of 2,182.67 thousand metric tons and 18.4 percent higher than previous month’s…

The country’s total external trade in goods in March 2019 amounted to $14.89 billion, reflecting an increment of 3.5 percent from the $14.39 billion in the same month of the previous year.

In the first quarter of 2019, agriculture grew by 0.67 percent. Production increases were noted for livestock, poultry and fisheries during the period. On the other hand, crops recorded a decrease in output. At current prices, the gross value of…

The Value of Production Index (VaPI) decreased at an annual rate of 5.4 percent in March 2019. During the same month of the previous year, VaPI went up at an annual rate of 10.5 percent. The decline of VaPI in March 2019 can be attributed to the…

The annual increase of the CMWPI in NCR slowed down further to 2.7 percent in April 2019. Annual growths were higher in March 2019 at 3.3 percent and in April 2018, 4.6 percent. Annual declines were seen in the indices of reinforcing and structural…

At the national level, the monthly change of the seasonally adjusted CPI for all items went up by 0.2 percent in April from 0.1 percent in March.

The country’s headline inflation slowed down further to 3.0 percent in April 2019.

The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) approved the conduct of the Senior Bank Loan Officers’ Survey (SLOS) of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP)
on 29 April 2019.

The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) now accepts registration of participants to the 14th National Convention on Statistics (NCS) to be held on 01-03 October 2019.