The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) approved the clearance for the conduct of the Agricultural Wage Rate Survey (AWRS) on 20 October 2017. The AWRS, previously named Agricultural Labor Survey (ALS), is a household-based survey which is…

The number of persons who were in the labor force was reported at 42.7 million of the estimated 69.6 million population 15 years old and over in April 2017. This placed the labor force participation rate (LFPR) at 61.4 percent, which means that six…

Preliminary results of the 2015 Annual Survey of Philippine Business and Industry (ASPBI) showed that the Philippines had a total of 1,090 establishments with Total Employment (TE) of 20 and over engaged in Transportation and Storage sector.

Agriculture grew by 2.32 percent in the third quarter of 2017. The sector’s growth was contributed by the production gains in the crops, livestock and poultry subsectors. At current prices, gross value of production in agriculture amounted to PhP382…

As of 01 November 2017, the updated fourth quarter 2017 production forecasts on palay and corn based on standing crop may decline from the October 2017 Round forecasts. These may be attributed to the effects of continuous rains during the…

The seasonally adjusted palay production for July - September 2017 was 4.96 million metric tons, 3.42 percent above the 4.80 million metric tons output in the second quarter of 2017. The boost in production was attributed mainly in the increase of…

The total rice stocks inventory as of October 1, 2017 was 1,935.87 thousand metric tons (Figure 1). It was 15.34 percent lower as compared to October 2016 inventory level of 2,286.57 thousand metric tons and 36.06 percent higher than the 1,422.84…

The year-on-year growth of General Wholesale Price Index (GWPI) at the national level went up by 3.9 percent in September 2017.

On an annual basis, the Construction Materials Wholesale PriceIndex (CMWPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) further moved upward by 4.0 percent in October 2017.

The annual growth of the Construction Materials Retail Price Index (CMRPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) decelerated to 1.4 percent in October 2017.