The Producer Price Index (PPI, 2000=100) for manufacturing slowly declined by 3.7 percent in October 2016 from the negative 7.6 percent during the same period last year.

The country’s annual headline inflation increased to 2.5 percent in November 2016. It was posted at 2.3 percent a month ago and 1.1 percent in November 2015. This was attributed to higher annual increments registered in the indices of alcoholic…

The seasonally adjusted CPI for all items in the Philippines moved up at a faster pace of 0.4 percent in November from 0.3 percent in October; alcoholic beverages and tobacco, 0.8 percent from 0.4 percent; and housing, water, electricity, gas and…

The annual growth of the General Retail Price Index (GRPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) further went up to 3.4 percent in October 2016. Last month, it picked up by 3.0 percent and in October 2015, 0.5 percent. This was mainly due t

The year-on-year growth of General Wholesale Price Index (GWPI) at the national level went up to 1.7 percent in September 2016.

The seasonally adjusted palay production for July-September 2016 was 4.50 million metric tons, higher by 4.12 percent from the 4.32 million metric tons output in the second qu arter of 2016. The increment was attr ibuted to the improvement in yield…

The seasonally adjusted palay production for April-June 2016 was 4.32 million metric tons, lower by 0.60 percent from the 4.35 million metric tons output in the first quarter of 2016. The decline was attributed mainly to contraction in harvest area…

The annual change of the Construction Materials Retail Price Index (CMRPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) continued to move upward at 2.3 percent in October 2016.

The annual growth of the Construction Materials Wholesale Price Index (CMWPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) picked up 2.0 percent in October 2016.

Convention papers presented during the 13th National Convention on Statistics (NCS) held on 3-4 October 2016, with the theme “Sustainable Development: Making Statistics Count”, are now available for download at: http://psa.gov.ph/ncs/final-manuscript