Value of Production Index (VaPI) for manufacturing posted a slower annual increase of 2.4 percent in August 2017 compared with the 8.5 percent growth during the same month of the previous year, according to the preliminary results of the Monthly…

The country’s total external trade in goods in August 2017 totaled $13.42 billion, an increase of 10.0 percent from $12.20 billion registered in August 2016.

The annual growth of the General Retail Price Index (GRPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) was pegged at 3.3 percent in August 2017. It was the same rate recorded in July 2017 while its annual rate in August 2016 was posted at 2.3 percent. The…

The total rice stock inventory as of September 1, 2017 was 1,422.84 thousand metric tons (Figure 1). This was 19.87 percent below the 1,775.76 thousand metric tons level in September 2016 and 29.84 percent lower than the previous month’s inventory…

The Producer Price Index (PPI, 2000=100) for total manufacturing declined at a slow rate of 0.3 percent in August 2017 from a negative 4.3 percent during the same period of previous year.

The country’s annual headline inflation moved up at a faster pace of 3.4 percent in September 2017. In the previous month, the annual increase was posted at 3.1 percent and in September 2016, 2.3 percent. This was primarily due to the 3.6 percent…

At the national level, the seasonally adjusted CPI for all items went up by 0.7 percent in September from 0.2 percent in August.

The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) spearheads the Philippine Statistical System (PSS) in the observanceof the 28th National Statistics Monthwith the theme “FACTS AND FIGURES FOR THE FUTURE: Statistics for Evidence-Based Decisions…

The total number of establishments engaged in electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply establishments with total employment (TE) of 20 and over in the formal sector of the economy reached 224, according to the preliminary results of the…

Reported deaths in 2015 reached 560,605. The figure shows an increase of 23,606 or 4.4 percent higher than the previous year’s 536,999 deaths, which is equivalent to a crude death rate (CDR) of 5.5, or about six (6) persons per thousand population.…