The total quantity of domestic trade transactions in the first quarter of 2012 increased by 4.7 percent, resulting to 4.73 million tons from 4.51 million tons reported during the same period of last year. The commodities were traded mostly through…

Total external trade in goods for April 2012 reached $9.405 billion, representing a 4.3 percent decrease from $9.832 billion recorded during the same month in 2011. This was due to the 13.7 percent decline in total imports from $5.525 billion to $4.…

The total number of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who worked abroad at anytime during the period April to September 2011 was estimated at 2.2 million. The estimate for the same period of 2010 was 2.0 million. The overseas contract workers (OCWs)…

The annual growth of the General Wholesale Price Index (GWPI) in the country went up at a slower pace of 1.2 percent in April from 2.6 percent in March. This was effected by the decline in the annual rate of crude materials, inedible except fuels…

Use of family planning (FP) method is lower among women in poor households than those in non-poor households (43.1 percent versus 51.3 percent), according to the results of the 2011 Family Health Survey (FHS). The difference is mainly due to the…

The annual increment of the retail price index of selected construction materials in NCR eased to 2.6 percent in May from 2.9 percent in April.

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,…