Value of Production Index (VaPI) of the manufacturing industry continued to show upbeat trend with a growth of 10.7 percent in May 2003 compared with year-ago figure, according to the preliminary results of the Monthly Integrated Survey of Selected…

Total external trade in goods for January to May 2003 amounted to $29.657 billion or 7.3 percent higher than $27.649 billion during the same period in 2002. The bill for foreign-made merchandise grew by 12.8 percent to $15.649 billion from $13.874…

The National Statistics Office (NSO) expects to interview about 1.18 million municipal and commercial fishing operators and about 500 thousand aquaculture operators nationwide, when the Census of Fisheries (CF) is taken this September. At the start…

The seasonally adjusted CPI of FBT items in NCR and AONCR correspondingly went up to 155.5 and 159.3 in June from their respective May levels of 152.5 and 158.5.

Year-on-year inflation increased to 3.4 percent in June from 2.7 percent in May mainly brought about by a 0.9 percentage point increment in the inflation rate of food, beverages and tobacco (FBT).

Merchandise exports registered 4.0 percent decline Registered earnings for May 2003 declined by 4.0 percent to $2.802 billion from $2.918 billion during the same month a year earlier. Receipts from merchandise exports for January to May 2003 went…

Value of Production Index (VaPI) expands Value of Production Index (VaPI) of the manufacturing industry exhibited a 9.0 percent growth in April 2003 compared with year-ago figure, according to the preliminary results of the Monthly Integrated…

Value and quantity of domestic trade declined The total value of domestic trade in fourth quarter 2002 decreased by 1.6 percent, resulting to P85.60 billion from P87.01 billion in fourth quarter 2001. Most of the commodities were transported via…

Total external trade in goods for January to April 2003 amounted to $23.549 billion or 8.1 percent higher than $21.785 billion in 2002. The bill for foreign-made merchandise went up by 13.0 percent to $12.344 billion from $10.928 billion. Likewise,…

The March 2003 round of the Customer Satisfaction Survey (CSS) showed that six in every ten (66%) of NSO's clients were either satisfied or very satisfied with the way NSO did its job. This was 23 percentage points higher than a year ago at 43…