The seasonally adjusted CPI for all items at the country level went up by 0.1 percent in January 2019 from -0.4 percent in the previous month.

The Philippine’s annual headline inflation at the beginning of 2019 continued to move at a slower pace of 4.4 percent.

The Value of Production Index (VaPI) for manufacturing further showed an annual drop of 9.3 percent in December 2018. In the same month of the previous year, VaPI also went down by 7.1 percent.

The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) renewed the clearance for the conduct of the 2019 Quarterly Survey on Philippine Business and Industry (QSPBI).

Employment in the country across establishments registered a sluggish gain in the third quarter of 2018 The latest result of the Labor Turnover Survey placed the labor turnover rate at 0.9 percent, lower by 0.8 percentage point from the previous…

The duck egg volume of production for October to December 2018 was 12.45 thousand metric tons. This was  3.03 percent higher than the 2017 level of 12.08 thousand metric tons.

In October to December 2018, the volume of chicken egg production was 138.54 thousand metric tons. It increased by 8.41 percent compared with the previous year’s output of 127.79 thousand metric tons. In the last three years, chicken egg production…

The volume of duck production during the fourth quarter of 2018 was 8.31 thousand metric tons.  It went up by 0.73 percent from its previous year’s level of 8.25 thousand metric tons.

The total chicken production from October to December 2018 was estimated at 505.24 thousand metric tons, liveweight. This was 6.82 percent higher than the 2017 level of 472.96 thousand metric tons, liveweight.

The swine industry showed increases in production from 2016 to 2018. The volume of hog production for the fourth quarter of 2018 was estimated at 662.73 thousand metric tons. This was 2.01 percent higher compared with the 2017 output of 649.68…