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…

Of the estimated 57.6 million Filipinos 10 to 64 years old, about 48.4 million or 84 percent are functionally literate, according to the results of the 2003 Functional Literacy, Education and Mass Media Survey (FLEMMS). In this survey, a self-…

Export earnings for December 2004 gained by 2.9 percent to $3.268 billion from $3.175 billion during the same period last year. For thirteen consecutive months a positive growth was registered. However, it was the lowest increase since December 2003…

The 2002 Annual Survey of Philippine Business and Industry (ASPBI) covered a total of 317 mining and quarrying establishments all over the country. Of the total establishments, 255 or 80.4 percent were mining and quarrying establishments with…

The beginning of the year saw a lower headline inflation rate in the Philippines at 8.4 percent from 8.6 percent in December. This was primarily due to the 0.8 percentage point slowdown in the inflation of food, beverages and tobacco (FBT). Slower…

A. 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 decreased to 118.2 in January from its December level of 118.6. However, the…

Approved building permits nationwide summed up to 23,540 applications during the third quarter of 2004. This represents a modest increase of 4.5 percent from 22,536 approved building permits recorded during the same period of 2003. An increase in…