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Monthly Integrated Survey of Selected Industries : March 2006

 

Value of Production Index (VaPI) for the manufacturing industry on a year-on-year basis registered an increase of 9.9 percent in March 2006 compared with the year-ago figure, according to the preliminary results of the Monthly Integrated Survey of…
External Trade Performance : March 2006

 

Total external trade in goods for January to March 2006 reached $22.069 billion representing an increase of 9.8 percent from $20.107 billion during the same period a year earlier. Similarly, total foreign-made merchandise went up by 6.0 percent to…
General Wholesale Price Index (1998=100) : December 2005

 

Year-on-year inflation rate of the General Wholesale Price Index (GWPI) at the national level went up at a slower rate of 11.6 percent in December from 11.7 percent in November. Annual price adjustment for crude materials, inedible except fuels…
Contraceptive Prevalence Rate remains at 49 percent

 

Almost half of currently married 15-49 years old women in the Philippines use a family planning method, according to the 2005 Family Planning Survey (FPS). The contraceptive prevalence rate has not changed in the last five years, based on the…
Construction Materials Wholesale Price Index in the National Capital Region (1985=100) : March 2006

 

The Construction Materials Wholesale Price Index (CMWPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) registered a slower rate of increment of 0.1 percent in March from 0.6 percent in February as prices of structural steel declined to -1.4 percent from zero…
Merchandise Export Performance : March 2006

 

Export earnings for March 2006 jumped by 25.8 percent to $4.110 billion from $3.268 billion during the same period of the previous year. The acceleration of more than twenty percent was the first time exports had recorded since July 2002 and the…
Seasonally Adjusted Consumer Price Index (2000=100) : April 2006

 

The seasonally adjusted CPI of FBT items in NCR and AONCR correspondingly picked up to 126.0 and 131.0 in April from their respective March levels of 125.8 and 130.7.
Summary Inflation Report Consumer Price Index (2000=100) : April 2006

 

The national year-on-year headline inflation rate slowed down to 7.1 percent in April from 7.6 percent in March as the annual inflation rates in all the commodity groups decelerated. Inflation a year ago was 8.5 percent.
Commodity Flow in the Philippines : Third Quarter 2005 (Preliminary Results)

 

Quantity of domestic trade declines, value increases In the third quarter of 2005, the total quantity of domestic trade transactions decreased by 26.4 percent, resulting to 4.05 million tons from 5.50 million tons reported during the same period of…
Construction Materials Wholesale Price Index in the National Capital Region (1985=100) : February 2006

 

The Construction Materials Wholesale Price Index (CMWPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) registered a slower rate of increment of 0.6 percent in February from 0.9 percent in January as prices of G.I. sheets further declined to -0.4 percent from…