Total external trade in goods for November 2012 reached $8.685 billion, representing a 3.5 percent increase from $8.390 billion recorded during the same month in 2011. The increase can be attributed to the 5.5 percent positive growth of exports to $…

Medical and dental practices lead the section The final results of the 2010 Annual Survey of Philippine Business and Industry (ASPBI) conducted nationwide for Human health and social work activities reported a total of 4,451 establishments. As…

The annual movement in the country's General Wholesale Price Index (GWPI) was -0.6 percent in November from 1.2 percent in October. This was effected by the annual reduction in crude materials, inedible except fuels index at -26.1 percent in…

The annual increment of the construction materials retail price index (CMRPI) in the National Capital Region eased to 4.0 percent in December from 4.2 percent in November.

Support activities for transportation industry dominates Transport and Storage Sector According to the final results of the 2010 Annual Survey of Philippine Business and Industry (ASPBI), there were 2,891 establishments engaged in Transport and…

Total foreign investments (FI) approved in the third quarter of 2012 by the investment promotion agencies (IPAs), namely: Board of Investments (BOI), Clark Development Corporation (CDC), Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA), Subic Bay…

According to the results of the 2011 Annual Poverty Indicator Survey (APIS), which covered around 51,000 sample households nationwide, 16 percent of families in Eastern Visayas experienced hunger in the three months prior to the conduct of the…

The year-on-year change of the Construction Materials Wholesale Price Index (CMWPI) in NCR was registered at 2.2 percent in December, the same rate posted last month.

Value of Production Index (VaPI) of the manufacturing industry expanded moderately at 6.3 percent in November 2012, according to the preliminary results of the Monthly Integrated Survey of Selected Industries (MISSI).

It is a large-scale government undertaking that is geared towards the collection and compilation of basic information on the agriculture and fishery sector in the country. The collected data will constitute the bases from which our policy makers and…