The annual employment rate for 2012 was estimated at 93.0 percent and the annual unemployment rate, at 7.0 percent. Meanwhile, the underemployment rate was 20.0 percent.

At the national level, increments in the seasonally adjusted CPI for all items; clothing and footwear; health; and restaurant and miscellaneous goods and services remained at 0.2 percent and alcoholic, beverages and tobacco index, 0.8 percent.

Producer Price Index (PPI, 2000=100) for manufacturing continued to decelerate at a slower rate of negative 7.6 percent in June 2013 from negative 9.1 percent in May 2013, compared with the year ago level, according to the preliminary results of the…

The year-on-year inflation for the bottom 30% income households in the Philippines slowed down to 3.1 percent in the second quarter from 3.5 percent in the first quarter of 2013. The downtrend was brought about by the slower annual mark-ups in all…

Year-on-year headline inflation in the Philippines eased to 2.5 percent in July from 2.7 percent in June. The indices of alcoholic beverages and tobacco; clothing and footwear; housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels; furnishing, household…

The 2010 Census of Population and Housing (2010 CPH), counted a total of 19,715,695 occupied housing units in the Philippines as of May 1, 2010. These are housing units with households and persons living in them at the time of census enumeration.…

There was an estimated 63.3 million population 15 years old and over in October 2012 (Table 1). Out of this estimate, about 40.4 million persons were in the labor force or those who were either employed or unemployed (Table 2 and Table 3). These…

Based on the 2010 Census of Population and Housing (CPH), Iloilo City, a highly urbanized city in the province of Iloilo, posted a total population of 424,619 persons as of May 1, 2010. This is larger by 58,228 persons compared to its total…

Based on the 2010 Census of Population and Housing (CPH), the province of Biliran posted a total population of 161,760 persons as of May 1, 2010. This is larger by 21,486 persons compared to its total population of 140,274 persons counted in the…

In 2010, 45.4 percent of the occupied housing units in the province had outer walls made of bamboo/sawali/cogon/nipa, down from 51.2 percent in 2000. The proportion of occupied housing units with outer walls made of concrete/brick/stone increased…