Total external trade in goods for January to December 2002 amounted to $68.537 billion or 11.1 percent higher than $61.701 billion in 2001. The bill for foreign-made merchandise grew up by 13.3 percent to $33.471 billion from $29.551 billion.…

The seasonally adjusted CPI of FBT items in NCR rose to 151.8 in January from 151.1 in December.

Year-on-year inflation slightly went up to 2.7 percent in January from 2.6 percent in December mainly due to the higher inflation posted in the services index. Inflation a year ago was 3.8 percent.

Registered earnings for December 2002 went up by 10.0 percent to $2.909 billion from $2.645 billion during the same month last year. Receipts from merchandise exports for January to December 2002 grew by 9.0 percent to $35.061 billion from $32.150…

Applications for all types of building constructions increase Building permit applications nationwide summed up to 19,178 during the third quarter of 2002, representing an increase of 18.9 percent compared with 16,129 applications received during…

Value of Production Index (VaPI) of the manufacturing industry grew by 4.7 percent in November 2002 compared with year ago figure, according to the preliminary results of the Monthly Integrated Survey of Selected Industries (MISSI). This was brought…

Total external trade in goods for January to November 2002 amounted to $63.054 billion or 10.8 percent higher than $56.913 billion in 2001. The bill for foreign-made merchandise went up by 12.7 percent to $30.902 billion from $27.408 billion. On the…

The National Capital Region, which covers the 12 cities and five municipalities, recorded a total population of 9,932,560 persons in the 2000 Census of Population and Housing (Census 2000). This was up by 478,520 persons as compared to 9,454,040…

The seasonally adjusted CPI of FBT items in NCR increased to 151.0 in December from 149.3 in November.

The 2002 APIS is the third in a series of nationwide poverty indicators survey undertaken by the Philippines National Statistics Office (PNSO) designed to provide access and impact indicators that can be used as inputs to the development of an…