Export earnings in August 2011 went down by 15.1 percent from $4.774 billion to $4.053 billion recorded during the same period of the previous year. Month-on-month, it fell by 8.5 percent from $4.429 billion in July 2011. Total receipts from…

On a monthly basis, the General Retail Price Index (GRPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) went down by -0.1 percent in August from 0.1 percent growth in July. This was attributed to the decrease in the heavily weighted food index at -0.1…

The search for the country's young statistics geniuses is on as the National Statistics Office (NSO) and the Philippine Statistical Association (PSA) announce the schedule of activities for the 20th Philippine Statistics Quiz (PSQ). The quiz is open…

On a monthly basis, the General Retail Price Index (GRPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) went down by -0.1 percent in August from 0.1 percent growth in July. This was attributed to the decrease in the heavily weighted food index at -0.1…

Producer Price Index (PPI, 2000=100) for the manufacturing sector picked up to 0.5 percent in August 2011, according to the preliminary results of the monthly Producer Price Survey.

The year-on-year headline inflation in the Philippines inched up to 4.8 percent in September from 4.7 percent in August. Higher annual increases in the indices of clothing and footwear; housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels; health;…

The seasonally adjusted CPI of FBT items in NCR and AONCR were posted at their corresponding September levels of 161.1 and 177.2.

Inflation for the bottom 30% income households averaged at 4.6 percent for the first quarter of 2011 was higher than the 3.2 percent in the last quarter of 2010 due to higher quarterly average inflation recorded in all the commodity groups except…

 

 

SEPTEMBER AND AUGUST 2011

The annual growth of the General Wholesale Price Index (GWPI) at the national level eased to 9.8 percent in July from 9.9 percent in June.