The year-on-year growth of the General Retail Price Index (GRPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) further moved upward at 1.0 percent in December 2015. Last month, it was pegged at 0.7 percent and in December 2014, 2.3 percent. Higher annual…

The year-on-year change of the Construction Materials Retail Price Index (CMRPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) continued to move downward as it posted a negative rate of 0.4 percent in December.

Total approved foreign investments (FI) in the fourth quarter of 2015 amounted to PhP 138.6 billion, higher by 45.6 percent from PhP 95.2 billion recorded in the same period in 2014. This represents total foreign investments approved by the seven…

Total foreign investments (FI) approved in the third quarter of 2015 by the seven  investment promotion agencies (IPAs), namely: Board of Investments (BOI), Clark Development Corporation (CDC), Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA), and Subic…

Inflation for the bottom 30% income households in the Philippines went up by 0.8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2015. It was recorded at 0.5 percent in the third quarter of 2015 and 5.1 percent in the fourth quarter of last year. Higher annual…

Retail sale in non-specialized stores establishments lead among industries Preliminary results of the 2013 Annual Survey of Philippine Business and Industry showed that a total of 8,392 establishments with total employment of 20 and over were…

Value of Production Index (VaPI) for total manufacturing dropped in December 2015, posting an annual decrement of 2.6 percent, according to the preliminary results of the Monthly Integrated Survey of Selected Industries (MISSI).

Due to the influx of submission of paper abstracts and requests for extension of deadline, we are glad to inform you that the deadline for submission of abstracts of 13th National Convention on Statistics (NCS) papers has been moved from 9 February…

The    Philippines’    export   sales  amounted to $4.660 billion in December 2015, a 3.0 percent decrease from $4.802 billion recorded value in December of 2014.  The negative growth was mainly brought about by the decreases in six major…

The year started off with a lower national headline inflation rate of 1.3 percent. It was recorded at 1.5 percent a month ago and in January 2015, 2.4 percent.