As of 01 August 2018, the total rice stocks inventory was estimated at 1,520.76 thousand metric tons (Figure 1). The volume of stocks was 25.01 percent below the previous year's level of 2,028.00 thousand metric tons. This was 23.61 percent lower…

Total foreign investments (FI) approved in the second quarter of 2018 amounted to PhP 30.9 billion from PhP 18.2 billion recorded in the same period last year. The total approved FI by five out of seven investment promotion agencies (IPAs), namely…

The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) granted clearance to the conduct of the Survey Research to Estimate a Quality of Life Index (QLI) for the Philippines on 03 September 2018.

Total number of constructions in the second quarter of 2018 reached 40,182, according to the preliminary results of construction statistics from approved building permits.

The headline inflation rate at the national level further accelerated to 6.4 percent in August 2018. In the previous month, inflation was posted at 5.7 percent and in August 2017, 2.6 percent.

The employment rate in July 2018 was estimated at 94.6 percent. In July 2017, the employment rate was 94.4 percent. Regions with lowest employment rates were Ilocos Region (93.5%), Central Luzon (93.7%), CALABARZON (93.7%), Bicol Region (93.7%),…

At the national level, the monthly seasonally adjusted CPI for all items went up at a faster pace of 0.8 percent in August from 0.5 percent in July.

The Value of Production Index (VaPI) for manufacturing continued to increase, registering a two-digit growth of 12.2 percent in July 2018 compared with the level in the same month of the previous year, based on the preliminary results of the Monthly…

The total number of constructions generated from approved building permits for the year 2017 reached 152,012. This number represents an increase of 2.7 percent from the 147,998 constructions recorded in 2016

The annual rate of change of the General Wholesale Price Index (GWPI) at the national level further accelerated to 10.0 percent in June 2018.