The headline inflation at the national level further slowed down to 0.6 percent in August. It was posted at 0.8 percent in July and 4.9 percent in August 2014. Annual decreases were still registered in the indices of housing, water, electricity, gas…

It is October and it is National Statistics Month (NSM) once again! On October 1, 2015, the 26th NSM kicks off at The Heritage Hotel Manila, Pasay City for the Opening Ceremony hosted by the Department of Health (DOH), with Health Secretary Janette-…

The country's total number of constructions generated from approved building permits for the year 2014 totaled to 126,875. This number increased by 5.1 percent compared to 120,775 constructions in 2013.

The  country’s total  imported  goods for the month of June 2015 amounted to $5.919 billion, an increase of 22.6 percent from $4.829 billion recorded during the same period a year ago. This increment was due to the positive performance of six out…

The General Wholesale Price Index (GWPI) at the national level continued to decline. It moved by a negative rate of 3.7 percent in June. In May, it went down by 4.1 percent but in June 2014, it gained 4.9 p

The year-on year growth rate of the Construction Materials Wholesale Price Index (CMWPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) continued to drop as it registered a negative rate of 1.0 percent in July.

Measured from a year ago level, the Construction Materials Retail Price Index (CMRPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) went down by 0.3 percent in July.

Agriculture contracted by 0.37 percent in the second quarter of 2015. The downturn was traced to the intense heat during the quarter which negatively affected the performance of the crops and fisheries subsectors. Output increases, however, were…

Total Gross Revenue Index of key industries grew by 7.4 percent in the first quarter of 2015, higher than the 6.3 percent growth posted a year ago. The positive growth of the index was led by Real Estate, Transportation & Communication, and…

Value of Production Index (VaPI) for total manufacturing posted an annual decrement of 7.3 percent compared with the two-digit growth of 10.1 percent in June 2014, according to the preliminary results of the Monthly Integrated Survey of Selected…