The employment rate or the proportion of employed persons to total labor force in October 2011 is estimated at 93.6 percent. This is higher than the estimate for October last year, which is 92.9 percent.

The monthly growth in the Construction Materials Wholesale Price Index (CMWPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) went up to 0.7 percent in November from zero growth in October.

The country’s export revenue in October 2011 declined by 14.6 percent to $4.088 billion from $4.788 billion recorded in October of previous year. Month-on-month, however,  it expanded by 4.9 percent from $3.897 billion in September 2011.

The monthly change of the retail price index of selected construction materials in NCR inched up to 0.2 percent in November from 0.1 percent in October.

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NOVEMBER AND OCTOBER 2011

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Year-on-Year Inflation Rates, All Items 

The seasonally adjusted CPI of FBT items in NCR was posted at 163.0 in November and in AONCR, at 179.6. Seasonal factors like the on-going harvest season of palay observed in selected regions lowered prices of rice in AONCR. Thus, prices of FBT…

The year-on-year headline inflation rate at the national level slowed down to 4.8 percent in November from 5.2 percent in October. This was effected by the slower annual increases in food and non-alcoholic beverages; housing, water, electricity, gas…

Producer Price Index (PPI, 2000=100) for the manufacturing sector went up to 0.5 percent in October 2011 after declining the previous month, according to the preliminary results of the monthly Producer Price Survey. Ten of the twenty major sectors…

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