Institutional population constitutes that part of the total population whose usual place of residence are collective or institutional living quarters (ILQs) such as hotels, motels, lodging houses, and dormitories; hospitals and nurses' homes;…

The country’s total external trade in goods in September 2017 reached $13.10 billion, posting an increment of 2.8 percent from $12.74 billion registered during the same month of the previous year.

The Value of Production Index (VaPI) for manufacturing went down as it posted an annual decrement of 4.3 percent in September 2017 compared with the previous year’s growth of 5.9 percent, according to the preliminary results of the Monthly…

The year-on-year headline inflation at the national level further accelerated by 3.5 percent in October 2017. In the previous month, inflation was posted at 3.4 percent and in October 2016, 2.3 percent. The indices of the following commodity groups…

The month-on-month growth of the seasonally adjusted CPI for all items at the national level slowed down to 0.2 percent in October from 0.7 percent in September.

The Producer Price Index (PPI, 2000=100) for manufacturing dropped at a slower rate of 0.5 percent in September 2017 from negative growth of 4.4 percent during the same period of previous year.

Preliminary results of the 2015 Annual Survey of Philippine Business and Industry (ASPBI) showed that a total of 744 establishments with total employment of 20 and over in the formal sector of the economy were engaged in the Information and…

The year-on-year inflation for the bottom 30% income households at the national level picked up by 3.0 percent in the third quarter of 2017. The annual rate in the previous quarter was recorded at 2.7 percent and in the same period in 2016, 1.5…

The annual increase of the General Retail Price Index (GRPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) slowed down to 3.2 percent in September 2017. Its annual rate in August 2017 was pegged at 3.3 percent and in August 2016, 3.0 percent. The annual gain…

Total employment in establishments with 20 or more workers was estimated at 4,384,678 in June 2016.This was lower by 2 percent relative to the June 2014 total count of 4,471,785. Among the industry groups, manufacturing had the highest employment…