The 2000 Input-Output (I-O) Accounts is now available for use by researchers, economic planners, policy makers, industries, academe and the general public. The 2000 benchmark I-O includes the I-O Transactions Table, the Technical Coefficient Matrix…

National Capital Region leads in number of manufacturing establishments The number of manufacturing establishments with average total employment (ATE) of 20 or more workers reached 5,899 in 2003. Food manufactures except beverages dominated the…

Export earnings for February 2006 grew by 9.8 percent to $3.296 billion from $3.000 billion during the same period a year earlier. Receipts from merchandise exports during January to February 2006 went up by 4.2 percent to $6.562 billion from $6.…

Headline inflation rate in the Philippines was registered at 7.6 percent in March, the same rate posted in February. Inflation a year ago was 8.5 percent.

The seasonally adjusted CPI of FBT items in NCR decreased to 125.8 in March from 125.9 in February while that for AONCR went up to 130.7 from 129.9.

The Philippine population would continue to grow, increasing from 76.5 million, as of the latest population census conducted in May 2000, to 141.7 million in 2040, according to the Medium Series of the 2000 Census-based population projections. This…

Average capacity utilization in January 2006 for total manufacturing was estimated at 80.2 percent. Sectors that registered more than 80% capacity utilization rates were the following: machinery excluding electrical, petroleum products, electrical…

Total external trade in goods for January 2006 amounted to $6.947 billion representing an increment of 2.2 percent from $6.796 billion during the same period of the previous year. On the other hand, exports registered a year-on-year negative growth…

Number of Agriculture and Forestry Establishments Decreases In 2003, there were 2,951establishments engaged in business operations in the agriculture, hunting and forestry sector according to the 2003 Annual Survey of Philippine Business and…

Starting April 2005, the new unemployment definition was adopted per NSCB Resolution No. 15 dated October 20, 2004. As indicated in the said resolution, the unemployed include all persons who are 15 years old and over as of their last birthday and…