The Producer Price Index (PPI, 2000=100) for the manufacturing industry posted a decrease of 1.2 percent in March 2010, compared with the year ago level, according to the preliminary results of the Monthly Producer Price Survey. Among the major…

Value of Production Index (VaPI) of the manufacturing industry continued to experience an upward trend as it posted a two-digit annual growth of 31.5 percent in February 2010, according to the preliminary results of the Monthly Integrated Survey of…

Total external trade in goods for the first two months of 2010 (January to February) reached $15.340 billion, a 35.2 percent increment from $11.348 billion registered during the same period in 2009. Total imports posted a 29.4 percent annual…

Generally, the retail price index of selected construction materials in NCR continued to remain stable as it still recorded a zero growth rate in March.

The month-on-month growth rate of the Construction Materials Wholesale Price Index (CMWPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) accelerated to 0.2 percent in March from -0.4 percent in February.

The month-on-month growth rate of the General Retail Price Index (GRPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) dropped to -0.3 percent in February from 0.1 percent in January.

Heads of the families belonging to the bottom 30% income stratum tend to be less educated compared to heads of families in the upper 70% income stratum. The bottom 30% of all families in this report represents the poor families. Two out of three (65…

Number of approved building permit applications reach 30,499 Approved building permit applications during the fourth quarter of 2009 in the country rose to 30,499. This number represents a 19.4 percent growth compared to 25,546 applications…

The population of Oriental Mindoro was 735,769 persons as of August 1, 2007, based on the 2007 Census of Population. This figure was higher by 53,951 persons over the population count of 681,818 persons in 2000. The population count of the province…

The province of Palawan (excluding Puerto Princesa City) had a total population of 682,152 persons as of August 1, 2007, higher by 14.9 percent compared with the census count of 593,500 persons as of May 1, 2000. The increase in population count for…