The Philippines’ export sales amounted to $4.711 billion in May 2016, a 3.8 percent decrease from $4.899 billion recorded value in May 2015. The decrease was attributed to five major commodities out of the top ten export commodities for the month.

Value of Production Index (VaPI) for total manufacturing reflected a decrease of 4.9 percent in May 2016, showing an improvement from the same month last year’s decline of 8.0 percent, according to the preliminary results of the Monthly Integrated…

Of the country's 238 legislative districts (LDs), the First LD of Caloocan City was the biggest in terms of population size, with 1.19 million persons, based on the results of the 2015 Census of Population (POPCEN 2015).

The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) cleared the conduct of the Farm Prices Survey (FPS). Undertaken monthly by the Price Statistics Division of the PSA, the FPS is a national survey that aims to gather reliable data on farmgate prices to…

The final results of the 2013 Annual Survey of Philippine Business and Industry (ASPBI) conducted nationwide showed that there were a total of 977 establishments engaged in water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities in the…

The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) releases the Statistical Indicators on Philippine Development 2015 (StatDev 2015). The StatDev is a statistical indicator system aimed to monitor the achievements of the economic and social development…

The Producer Price Index (PPI, 2000=100) for manufacturing slowed down to 3.8 percent in May 2016 compared with a negative 7.0 percent a year earlier.

The annual growth of the General Retail Price Index (GRPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) moved up by 2.2 percent in May 2016. It was registered at 1.6 percent in April 2016 and 1.5 percent during the same month in 2015. Higher annual…

The seasonally adjusted CPI for all items at the country level moved at its May rate of 0.3 percent in June.

The annual headline inflation at the national level leaped by 1.9 percent in June 2016. Last month, it was noted at 1.6 percent and in June 2015, 1.2 percent. This was mainly effected by higher annual increment in the heavily-weighted food and non-…