An estimated 30 children for every 1,000 live births in the Philippines will likely die before reaching age five. The said estimated under-five mortality rate (U-5MR) or the probability of a child born on a specified year and dying before reaching…

The results of the July 2012 Labor Force Survey (LFS) recorded an estimate of 37.6 million employed persons, which translated to an employment rate of 93.0 percent. This rate is almost the same with the reported estimate of 92.9 percent in July 2011…

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The annual growth in the wholesale prices of selected construction materials in the National Capital Region (NCR) based on the Construction Materials Wholesale Price Index (CMWPI) rose 2.9 percent in August from 2.2 percent in July.

The annual growth of the retail price index of selected construction materials in the National Capital Region (NCR) was pegged at 5.0 percent in August,

Value of Production Index (VaPI) for total manufacturing industry increased at a slower rate of 4.6 percent compared with the year-ago figure, according to the preliminary results of the Monthly Integrated Survey of Selected Industries (MISSI). This…

Export earnings in July 2012 went up by 7.8 percent to $4.807 billion from $4.460 billion recorded in July 2011. The increase can be attributed to the higher annual growth in seven out of the ten top Philippine exports in July 2012 including…

Producer Price Index (PPI, 2000=100) for the manufacturing sector slowly decreased to -0.3 percent in July 2012 from -2.2 percent in June, according to the preliminary results of the monthly Producer Price Survey. This was attributed mainly by the…

The year-on-year inflation rate at the national level advanced to 3.8 percent in August from 3.2 percent in July. The uptrend was due to higher annual increases posted in the five commodity groups namely: food and non-alcoholic beverages; clothing…

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