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Technical Notes on Domestic Trade Statistics

 

Commodity flow or domestic trade refers to the flow of commodities through the water, air and rail transport systems in the country. Data on the inflow and outflow of commodities in the different regions of the country are used to construct…
General Wholesale Price Index (1998=100) : June 2005

 

Year-on-year inflation rate of the General Wholesale Price Index (GWPI) went up at a slower rate of 10.2 percent in June from 10.6 percent in May. Annual price adjustment for crude materials, inedible except fuels still posted a negative rate of 1.4…
Merchandise Export Performance : August 2005

 

Export earnings for August 2005 slightly went up by 0.8 percent to $3.458 billion from $3.430 billion during the same period a year earlier. Receipts from merchandise exports during the period January to August 2005 gained by 4.1 percent to $26.360…
Construction Materials Wholesale Price Index in the National Capital Region (1985=100) : August 2005

 

Compared with July 2005, the Construction Materials Wholesale Price Index (CMWPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) accelerated by 1.4 percent. In July, the monthly growth was recorded at 0.3 percent. These can be attributed to the increments in…
Summary Inflation Report Consumer Price Index (2000=100) : September 2005

 

Year-on-year headline inflation rate at the national level decelerated to 7.0 percent in September from 7.2 percent in August. This was effected by the slower rates posted in the indices of food, beverages and tobacco (FBT), fuel, light and water (…
Seasonally Adjusted Consumer Price Index (2000=100) : September 2005

 

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 items in NCR and AONCR correspondingly recorded at 122.1 and 125.9 in September were…
External Trade Performance : July 2005

 

Total external trade in goods for January to July 2005 amounted to $48.070 billion, a 1.2 percent increment from $47.497 billion during the same period a year earlier. Total foreign-made merchandise went down by 1.7 percent to $25.169 billion from…
Monthly Integrated Survey of Selected Industries : July 2005

 

Value of Production Index (VaPI) for the manufacturing industry on a year-on-year basis continued to rise as it posted an increase of 13.1 percent in July 2005, according to the preliminary results of the Monthly Integrated Survey of Selected…
2004 Annual Poverty Indicators Survey (APIS) (Preliminary Results)

 

According to the 2004 Annual Poverty Indicators Survey, at least eight out of 10 Filipino families meet the minimum basic needs (MBN) for survival which, in this survey, is measured by access to safe drinking water, presence of electricity at home,…
Literacy Status of Filipinos (Results from the 2003 Functional Literacy, Education and Mass Media Survey)

 

About one in every 10 Filipinos 10 to 64 years old cannot read and write According to the results of the 2003 Functional Literacy, Education and Mass Media Survey (FLEMMS), about one in 10 of the population 10 to 64 years old cannot read and write…