Producer Price Index (PPI, 2000=100) for the manufacturing sector went up by 1.6 percent in April 2012, according to the preliminary results of the monthly Producer Price Survey.
Value of Production Index (VaPI) for total manufacturing sustained a positive growth of 7.1 percent in April 2012, according to the preliminary results of the Monthly Integrated Survey of Selected Industries (MISSI). Significant contributors to the…
The April 2012 Labor Force Survey (LFS) results revealed an employment rate of 93.1 percent. The employment rate reported in April 2011 was 92.8 percent. Among the regions, only the National Capital Region (NCR) had an employment rate below 90.0…
Export earnings in April 2012 which amounting to $4.636 billion went up by 7.6 percent from $4.306 billion recorded in April of 2011. Similarly, on a monthly basis, it increased by 7.2 percent from $4.323 billion posted in March 2012. Moreover,…
The annual gain in the GRPI in NCR eased to 0.5 percent in April from 1.3 percent in March. The annual change in crude materials, inedible except fuels index dropped by -21.0 percent in April from 0.5 percent in March and mineral fuels, lubricants…
The monthly growth of the wholesale price index of selected construction materials in the National Capital Region dropped by -0.3 percent in May from 0.7 percent in April.
The country's annual headline inflation rate settled to 2.9 percent in May from 3.0 percent in April. It resulted from the slower annual growth rates in the indices of housing, water, electricity, gas, and other fuels; health; transport; and…
The 2011 Family Health Survey (FHS) results reveal that unmet need for family planning (FP) among married women in the Philippines remains high at 19.3 percent, 10.5 percent for birth spacing and 8.8 percent for limiting births. In the 2006 Family…
Total external trade in goods for March 2012 reached $9.694 billion, representing a 2.2 percent decrease from $9.909 billion recorded during the same month in 2011. This was due to the 3.3 percent downward trend of total imports from $5.553 billion…