The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) is now calling for entries to the 6th National Statistics Month Media Awards (NSMMA). The NSMMA is open to all television and radio programs and reporters from print or online news service from both…

The Producer Price Index (PPI, 2000=100) for manufacturing slowly went down by 3.5 percent in June 2016 compared with a negative 6.3 percent during the same period last year.

The Philippines’ annual headline inflation was pegged at 1.9 percent in July 2016. It was the same rate posted last month while, in July 2015, inflation reached 0.8 percent. Higher annual increases were noted in the indices of alcoholic beverages…

At the national level, the seasonally adjusted CPI for all items moved up at a slower pace of 0.1 percent in July from 0.3 percent in June; alcoholic beverages and tobacco, 0.6 percent from 0.7 percent; and health, 0.1 percent from 0.2 percent.

Hospital industry leads the sector Final results of the 2013 Annual Survey of Philippine Business and Industry covered a total of 6,673 establishments engaged in Human health and social work activities. About 5,673 or 85.0 percent were…

The year-on-year growth of the General Retail Price Index (GRPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) further went up by 2.6 percent in June 2016. Last month, it was recorded at 2.2 percent and in June 2015, 0.9 percent. The uptrend was mainly due…

The country's inflation for the bottom 30% income households went up 1.2 percent in the second quarter of 2016. It was recorded at 1.1 percent in the first quarter of 2016 and 2.1 percent during the same quarter in 2015. Higher annual increase was…

The economy of Bicol Region recorded the fastest growth among the 17 regions of the country in 2015 - growing at 8.4 percent and surpassing its growth of 4.3 percent in 2014. It was followed by Western Visayas and Davao Region which grew by 8.3…

The year-on-year growth of General Wholesale Price Index (GWPI) at the national level went up 0.3 percent in May. Last month, it was posted at -0.3 percent and in May 2015, -4.1 percent. This was due to higher annual increment registered in the…

The total imported goods by the country for the month of May 2016 amounted to $6.736 billion, an increase of 39.3 percent from $4.834 billion recorded during the same period a year ago.