The seasonally adjusted CPI of FBT items in NCR and AONCR correspondingly picked up to 166.7 and 173.2 in December from their respective November levels of 163.7 and 172.3.
Year-on-year headline inflation rate at the national level picked up by 0.3 percentage point to 7.9 percent in December from 7.6 percent in November as the inflation rates for all the commodity groups except for housing and repairs (H&R)…
The Value of Production Index (VaPI) for the manufacturing industry on a year-on-year basis grew by 14.0 percent in October 2004, 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 October 2004 amounted to $66.54 billion representing an increment of 8.9 percent from $61.117 billion during the same period last year. Total foreign-made merchandise as well grew by 8.8 percent to $33.…
In 2002, Ilocos Region registered 276.8 thousand farms for agricultural use, covering 270.7 thousand hectares, or an average farm size of 0.98 hectare per farm. The region's total agricultural land area comprised 21.1 percent of the region's total…
Jane Lois E. de Veyra, a BS Computer Science student of the University of the Philippines-Visayas, bested 16 other regional champions in order to bag the national championship trophy in the Philippine Statistics Quiz (PSQ). The PSQ, a nationwide…
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Labor force population in October 2004 increased by 1.4 percent to 35.6 million from 35.1 million reported in October 2003. However, the labor force participation rate (LFPR), decreased by 0.6 percentage point, from 67.1 percent…
The seasonally adjusted CPI of FBT items in NCR went down to 163.6 in November from 164.2 in October while that for AONCR increased to 172.3 from 171.5.
The Construction Materials Wholesale Price Index (CMWPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) registered an increment of 0.3 percent in October, same rate posted in September. Increases were observed in the prices of cement, 2.4 percent in October…