Merchandise exports registered 8.6 percent increase Registered earnings for March 2003 increased by 8.6 percent to $3.095 billion from $2.849 billion during the same month a year earlier. Receipts from merchandise exports for January to March 2003…

The Census 2000 results showed that Sultan Kudarat registered a total population of 586,505 persons, higher by 64,318 persons over the 1995 results. This figure recorded a decrease in the annual growth rate, from 3.44 percent in 1995 to 2.52 percent…

Approved building permits during the fourth quarter of 2002 summed up to 22,497. This represents an increase of 33.9 percent from 16,804 approved building permits during the same period of 2001. Approved building permits for residential building…

Value of Production Index (VaPI) continues to improve Value of Production Index (VaPI) of the manufacturing industry gained 11.4 percent in February 2003 over the year-ago figure, according to the preliminary results of the Monthly Integrated…

The number of Overseas Filipinos Workers (OFWs) who worked abroad during the period April to September 2002 reached 1.06 million, up by 2.6 percent from 1.03 million a year ago. Of this total, 93.8 percent or 990 thousand were overseas contract…

Total external trade in goods for January to February 2003 amounted to $11.148 billion or 15.3 percent higher than $9.669 billion in 2002. The bill for foreign-made merchandise grew by 30.0 percent to $5.734 billion from $4.409 billion. Likewise,…

The seasonally adjusted CPI of FBT items in NCR slightly decreased to 152.2 in March from 152.3 in February.

Year-on-year inflation decelerated to 2.9 percent in March from 3.1 percent in February due to the slowdown in the inflation rate of food, beverages and tobacco (FBT). Inflation a year ago was 3.6 percent.

Merchandise exports registered 3.6 percent increase Registered earnings for February 2003 went up by 3.6 percent to $2.724 billion from $2.628 billion during the same month last year . Receipts from merchandise exports for January to February 2003…

Value of Production Index (VaPI) moves up further Value of Production Index (VaPI) of the manufacturing industry exhibited a 16.1 percent mark-up in January 2003 compared with year ago figure, according to the preliminary results of the Monthly…