Filipino families earned 206 thousand pesos yearly, on the average, according to the 2009 Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES). Families in the bottom 30 percent income group, which may be considered as poor families, had much smaller yearly…

The Producer Price Index (PPI, 2000=100) for the manufacturing industry continued to decrease at a slower rate of 6.2 percent, showing an improvement from its 7.2 percent decrease in November 2010, according to the preliminary results of the monthly…

The seasonally adjusted CPI of FBT in NCR and AONCR registered correspondingly at 158.3 and 173.8 in January were higher than their respective December levels of 157.4 and 172.5.

The country’s year-on-year headline inflation at the beginning of the year 2011 advanced to 3.5 percent from 3.0 percent in December. This was effected by higher annual rates recorded in food, beverages and tobacco (FBT), fuel, light and water (FLW…

The retail price index of selected construction materials in NCR went up to 0.3 percent in December from zero growth in November.

The month-on-month growth rate of the General Retail Price Index (GRPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) further went up to 0.9 percent in November from 0.6 percent in October. The 2.3 percent growth in the heavily weighted food index from 1.0…

The monthly rate of price movement in the Construction Materials Wholesale Price Index (CMWPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) inched up to 0.1 percent in December from zero growth last month.

Total external trade in goods for January to November 2010 reached $97.002 billion, a 30.6 percent increment from $74.270 billion registered during the same period in 2009. Total imports posted a 27.1 percent annual increase to $49.772 billion from…

Value of Production sustains growth in November 2010 On a year-on-year basis, Value of Production Index (VaPI) for total manufacturing inched further to 8.4 percent in November 2010 from the 7.6 percent growth recorded the previous month, according…

The retail price index of selected construction materials in NCR generally remained stable as it recorded a zero growth in November from 0.8 percent in October.