The total imported goods by the country for the month of January 2016 amounted to $6.825 billion, a significant increase of 30.8 percent from $5.219 billion recorded during the same period a year ago.

Hospital activities dominates the sector Preliminary results of the 2013 Annual Survey of Philippine Business and Industry covered a total of 994 Human Health and Social Work Activities establishments with a total employment (TE) of 20 and over in…

The year-on-year growth of General Wholesale Price Index (GWPI) at the national level went up 0.4 percent in January. Last month, it was posted at -0.7 percent and in January 2015, -6.4 percent. Higher annual increments were noticed in the indices…

The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) is now calling for entries to the 26th National Statistics Month (NSM) Awards. The awards to be given to individual winners are the following (click for details):

The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) gladly announces the extension of the deadline for submission of abstracts of 13th National Convention on Statistics (NCS) papers to 31 March 2016.

The year-on-year growth of the Construction Materials Wholesale Price Index (CMWPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) decelerated to 0.4 percent in February 2016.

The year-on-year change of the Construction Materials Retail Price Index (CMRPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) further moved downward as it recorded a 0.4 percent drop in February 2016.

The employment rate in January 2016 was estimated at 94.2 percent. Three regions, namely, Central Luzon (92.5%), CALABARZON (92.5%), and National Capital Region (NCR) (93.1%) had employment rates significantly lower than the national figure (Table…

Value of Production Index (VaPI) for total manufacturing significantly rose to 26.5 percent in January 2016 compared with the negative 1.1 percent in January 2015, according to the preliminary results of the Monthly Integrated Survey of Selected…

The Philippines’ export sales amounted to $4.187 billion in January 2016, a 3.9 percent decrease from $4.357 billion recorded value in January 2015.