The total rice stock inventory as of January 1, 2017 was 2.77 million metric tons (Figure 1). This was 13.56 percent lower than the 3.20 million metric tons level in January 2016 and 17.19 percent lower than the previous month’s inventory level of 3…

The Producer Price Index (PPI, 2000=100) for manufacturing went down by 2.9 percent in December 2016. It went down 7.4 percent during the same period last year. This decrease was brought about by the declines posted by ten major sectors including…

The country’s annual headline inflation picked up by 2.7 percent at the beginning of the year 2017. Inflation in December 2016 was recorded at 2.6 percent and in the same month of the previous year, 1.3 percent. The indices of six of the eleven…

At the country level, the month-on-month growth of the seasonally adjusted CPI for all items decelerated to 0.1 percent in January 2017 from 0.4 percent in December 2016; non-food, 0.2 percent from 0.4 percent; and health and restaurant and…

The 2014 Annual Survey of Philippine Business and Industry (ASPBI) preliminary results counted a total of 8,597 establishments with total employment (TE) of 20 and over, engaged in wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles.

The annual growth of the General Retail Price Index (GRPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) continued to move at a faster rate at 4.3 percent in December 2016. In the previous month, it picked up by 3.6 percent and in December 2015, 1.0 percent…

Inflation for the bottom 30% income households in the Philippines increased by 2.0 percent in the fourth quarter of 2016. In the previous quarter, it picked up by 1.4 percent and in 2015 of the same quarter, 0.8 percent. This was due to higher…

From the preliminary results of the 2014 Annual Survey of Philippine Business and Industry, the Philippines had a total of 995 establishments with TE of 20 and over engaged in Human health and social work activities sector. Hospital activities…

Labor turnover in the National Capital Region (NCR) rose by 3.67 percent in the third quarter of 2016. This implies that 37 workers per 1,000 employed were added to the workforce of the 14,212 total enterprises. Overall employment during the…

The annual adjustment of the General Wholesale Price Index (GWPI) at the national level further picked up by 3.1 percent in November 2016.