Export earnings in April 2006 went up by 18.7 percent to $3.852 billion from $3.246 billion during the same period a year earlier. The double-digit increase was recorded since February of the current year. Receipts from merchandise exports during…

The year-on-year headline inflation rate in the Philippines further decelerated to 6.9 percent in May from 7.1 percent in April. The slower annual inflation rates posted in the indices of all the commodity groups except for clothing and services…

The seasonally adjusted CPI of FBT items in NCR and AONCR registered at 126.1 and 131.5 in May were higher than their respective April levels of 126.0 and 131.0.

The number of clients who were either satisfied or very satisfied with NSO?s civil registry services in March 2006 decreased by 18.6 percentage points to 60.2 percent from 78.8 percent in December 2005. This is the first Customer Satisfaction Survey…

Approved building permits applications decrease by 4.4 percent Approved building permits nationwide reached 24,777 during the fourth quarter of 2005, representing a 4.4 percent drop from the 25,906 approved building permits recorded during the same…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…