The year-on-year growth in the Construction Materials Wholesale Price Index (CMWPI) at the National Capital Region (NCR) further dropped to 0.8 percent in April.

Value of Production Index (VaPI) for total manufacturing reflected a year-on-year increment of 7.4 percent in March 2015, showing an improvement from the 0.03 percent registered during the same period of last year, according to the preliminary…

The Philippines’ export revenue totaled $5.377 billion in March 2015, a 2.1 percent increase from $5.268 billion recorded value in March of 2014.  The positive growth was mainly brought about by the increase of seven major commodities out of the top…

Producer Price Index (PPI, 2000=100) for manufacturing decreased by 5.4 percent in March 2015 compared to 0.1 percent posted in March 2014.

The country’s headline inflation further slowed down to 2.2 percent in April. It was posted at 2.4 percent in March and 4.1 percent in April 2014. Annual decreases were still registered in the indices of housing, water, electricity, gas and other…

The month-on-month growth rate of the seasonally adjusted CPI for all items at the national level was posted at 0.1 percent in April, the same rate observed last month.

The population 15 years old and over in October 2014 was estimated at 64.3 million (Table 1). Of this number, 41.3 million were in the labor force (Table 2 and Table 3). The labor force consists of the employed and the unemployed persons. The…

The annual gain in the General Retail Price Index (GRPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) eased to 1.9 percent in March 2015. Last month and in March 2014, it grew by 2.2 percent. Annual declines were still noted in the indices of mineral fuels…

Inflation for the bottom 30% income households in the Philippines slowed down to 3.1 percent in the first quarter of 2015.

The Philippine Statistical System (PSS), spearheaded by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), is now on-board in the preparations for the conduct of the 13th National Convention on Statistics (NCS) in October 2016. This triennial event aims to…