The country’s total external trade in goods for February 2015 amounting to $5.326 billion, increased by 11.2 percent from $4.788 billion recorded during the same period a year ago. The increase in total imports for this period was due to the…

Total Gross Revenue Index of key industries grew by in the fourth quarter of 2014, lower than the growth posted a year ago. The positive growth of the index was led by Manufacturing, Private Services, and Finance.

The number of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) who worked abroad at anytime during the period April to September 2014 was estimated at 2.3 million. Overseas Contract Workers (OCWs) or those with existing work contract comprised 96.0 percent (2.2…

The annual average consumer price index (CPI) in 2014 was posted at 139.5 for the Philippines, 130.5 for the National Capital Region (NCR) and 142.4 for areas outside NCR (AONCR).

The Philippine Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target on access to safe water supply and access to sanitary toilet facility is to ensure that, by 2015, 86.8 percent of the families in the country will have access to safe water supply and 83.8…

The 2013 Functional Literacy, Education and Mass Media Survey (FLEMMS) covered around 36 million population aged 6 to 24 years. According to the survey, one in every ten or about 4 million Filipino children and youth was out-of-school in 2013. Out-…

The General Wholesale Price Index (GWPI) at the national level continued to decline as it recorded a negative rate of 5.1 percent in February. In January, it decreased by 6.6 percent and in February last year it had a positive growth of 3.9 percent…

The annual increase of the Construction Materials Retail Price Index (CMRPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) further eased to 0.1 percent in March 2015.

Value of Production Index (VaPI) decelerated as it posted an annual decrease of 2.0 percent in February 2015, according to the preliminary results of the Monthly Integrated Survey of Selected Industries (MISSI).

The Construction Materials Wholesale Price Index (CMWPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) still posted a negative rate of 1.2 percent in March.