Year-on-year headline inflation rate at the national level picked up by 0.9 percentage point to 6.0 percent in July from 5.1 percent in June. This was mainly brought about by the 10.8 percent increase in the inflation of services. Higher inflation…

Export earnings for June 2004 went up by 8.2 percent to $3.313 billion from $3.060 billion during the same month last year. This is the seventh consecutive month that a positive growth was registered.

Quantity and Value of Domestic Trade decreased In 2003, the total quantity of domestic trade decreased by 2.0 percent, resulting to 27.07 million tons from 27.63 million tons registered in 2002. Water was the major mode of transport comprising 99.8…

Value of Production Index (VaPI) for the manufacturing industry on a year-on-year basis continued to improve at a slower rate of 3.1 percent in May 2004, from an increase of (revised) 4.9 percent recorded during the previous month, according to the…

Total external trade in goods for January to May 2004 amounted to $31.9 billion representing an increase of 6.8 percent from $29.883 billion during the same period last year. Total foreign-made merchandise also grew by 5.1 percent to $16.479 billion…

The 1998 Philippines National Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS) is a nationally-representative survey of 13,983 women age 15-49.  The NDHS was designed to provide information on levels and trends of fertility, family planning knowledge and use,…

Supporting auxiliary transport activities dominate the transport, storage and communications sector There were 10,462 establishments engaged in transport, storage and communications based on the 2000 Census of Philippine Business and Industry (CPBI…

Export earnings for May 2004 recorded a double-digit increment at 15.3 percent to $3.259 billion from $2.828 billion during the same month a year earlier. This is the highest growth in 18 months, that is since December 2002 when the increase was 10.…

The seasonally adjusted CPI of FBT in NCR and AONCR correspondingly went up to 161.9 and 167.1 in June from their respective May levels of 161.1 and 166.1.

Year-on-year headline inflation rate in the Philippines went up by 0.6 percentage point to 5.1 percent in June from 4.5 percent in May. This is the highest inflation rate recorded since November 2001. The uptrend of the inflation rate was primarily…