The employment rate in October 2015 was estimated at 94.4 percent. Three regions, namely, Ilocos Region (91.5%), CALABARZON (92.2%), and National Capital Region (NCR) (92.8%) had employment rates lower than the national figure (Table 4). The labor…

Based on the final results of the 2011 SOC, the estimated number of children aged 5 to 17 years who worked for at least one hour during the past week in October 2011 was 3.3 million. They accounted for 12.4 percent of the estimated 26.6 million…

The country’s annual headline inflation jumped to 1.1 percent in November. It was posted at 0.4 percent last month and 3.7 percent in November 2014. The growth was primarily due to the higher annual rate in the heavily-weighted food and non-…

Total number of constructions generated from approved building permits in the third quarter of 2015 was recorded at 30,126. This represents a slight increase of 1.7 percent compared with the 29,616 constructions recorded during the same quarter in…

At the national level, the seasonally adjusted CPI for clothing and footwear went up by 0.4 percent in November from 0.3 percent in October; and recreation and culture and education, 0.3 percent from their corresponding last month’s…

Producer Price Index (PPI, 2000=100) for manufacturing dropped by 7.6 percent in October 2015. During the same month last year, it declined by 0.7 percent. This can be attributed to the double-digit decrements of five major sectors namely: Furniture…

After a series of eliminations, seventeen young hopefuls from various colleges and universities all over the country will finally meet to compete for the Philippine Statistics Quiz (PSQ) National Finals. The event will be held at the GT Toyota Asian…

At the national level, the General Wholesale Price Index (GWPI) continued to register an annual drop of 4.3 percent in September. In August, it went down by 4.1 percent while in September 2014, it had a positive growth of 1.7 percent. The decrease…

On an annual basis, the Construction Materials Retail Price Index (CMRPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) further declined by 1.4 percent in October.

The total imported goods by the country for the month of September 2015 amounted to $6.170 billion, an increase of 6.7 percent from $5.783 billion recorded during the same period a year ago.