The 1998 Philippines National Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS) is a nationally-representative survey of 13,983 women age 15-49.  The NDHS was designed to provide information on levels and trends of fertility, family planning knowledge and use,…

Supporting auxiliary transport activities dominate the transport, storage and communications sector There were 10,462 establishments engaged in transport, storage and communications based on the 2000 Census of Philippine Business and Industry (CPBI…

Export earnings for May 2004 recorded a double-digit increment at 15.3 percent to $3.259 billion from $2.828 billion during the same month a year earlier. This is the highest growth in 18 months, that is since December 2002 when the increase was 10.…

The seasonally adjusted CPI of FBT in NCR and AONCR correspondingly went up to 161.9 and 167.1 in June from their respective May levels of 161.1 and 166.1.

Year-on-year headline inflation rate in the Philippines went up by 0.6 percentage point to 5.1 percent in June from 4.5 percent in May. This is the highest inflation rate recorded since November 2001. The uptrend of the inflation rate was primarily…

Value of Production Index (VaPI) for the manufacturing industry on a year-on-year basis managed to improve by 2.8 percent in April 2004, from a drop of (revised) 5.0 percent recorded during the previous month, according to the preliminary results of…

Total external trade in goods for January to April 2004 amounted to $25.364 billion representing an increment of 6.9 percent from $23.724 billion during the same period a year earlier. Total foreign-made merchandise also gain by 6.9 percent to $13.…

Of the population 15 years old and over, there were those who were in the labor force and those who were not...

The seasonally adjusted CPI of FBT in NCR and AONCR correspondingly went up to 161.1 and 166.0 in May from their respective April levels of 160.8 and 164.9.

Among the major groups of electronic products, components/devices (Semiconductors) dominated the groupings with 44.0 percent share to total exports. Semiconductors dropped by 2.4 percent to $1.307 billion from $1.339 billion during the same period a…