Agriculture is as equally important as the other economic sectors of the country. Agricultural activities play an important role in economic sustainability and development of the country. The agriculture and fishery sector contributed 15 percent of…

The 2002 Annual Survey of Philippine Business and Industry (reference year - 2001) covered a total of 87,924 hotel and restaurant establishments. Of the total figure, 85,568 establishments or 97.3 percent had an average total employment (ATE) of…

Export earnings for January 2005 grew by 15.4 percent to $3.282 billion from $2.844 billion during the same period of the previous year. This is the fourteen consecutive months a positive rate was recorded and the fifth time, a double-digit positive…

Construction Establishments Generate Employment Reaching 156,202 In 2001, the total number of construction establishments nationwide was estimated at 2,691. Of the total establishments count, more than three-fourths (2,022 establishments or 75.…

Quantity and value of domestic trade declined... In the third quarter of 2004, the total quantity of commodities traded decreased by 23.3 percent, resulting to 5.50 million tons from 7.17 million tons registered during the same period of last year…

National Capital Region led in number of manufacturing establishments The number of manufacturing establishments with average total employment (ATE) of 20 or more workers reached 6,397 in 2001. Food except beverages dominated the sector with 1,093…

CPI of Food, Beverages and Tobacco (FBT): National Capital Region (NCR) and Areas Outside the National Capital Region (AONCR) The seasonally adjusted CPI of FBT in NCR and AONCR correspondingly moved up to 160.3 and 175.9 in February from their…

Year-on-year headline inflation rate at the national level slightly moved upward to 8.5 percent in February from 8.4 percent in January as the inflation of food, beverages and tobacco (FBT), housing and repairs (H&R) and miscellaneous items…

Total external trade in goods for January to December 2004 amounted to $79.90 billion representing a growth of 8.4 percent from $73.728 billion during the same period a year earlier. Total foreign-made merchandise also grew by 7.5 percent to $40.300…

Value of Production Index (VaPI) for the manufacturing industry on a year-on-year basis continued to gain by 17.0 percent in December 2004, according to the preliminary results of the Monthly Integrated Survey of Selected Industries (MISSI). Major…