The Census 2000 results showed that Northern Samar registered a total population of 500,639 persons, higher by 46,244 persons over the 1995 results. This translated to a 2.11 percent annual growth rate, from 3.21 percent in 1995. A corresponding…

The total population of Zamboanga del Norte, as of May 1, 2000, was 823,130 persons. This implied an increase of 52,433 persons over the 1995 census figure or an average annual growth rate of 1.42 percent. This was 1.04 percentage points lower than…

The province of Zambales registered a total population of 433,542 persons in the year 2000, up from 389,512 persons in 1995. This figure gave the province an average annual growth rate of 2.32 percent, an increase of 1.34 percentage points from the…

For March 2002, Value of Production Index (VaPI) of the manufacturing industry posted a decline of 2.9 percent compared with year ago figure, according to the preliminary results of the Monthly Integrated Survey of Selected Industries (MISSI).…

Total external trade in goods for January to March 2002 amounted to $15.192 billion or 4.1 percent lower than $15.836 billion in 2001. The bill for foreign-made merchandise declined by 2.6 percent to $7.084 billion from $7.272 billion. On the other…

The seasonally adjusted CPI of FBT in NCR and AONCR correspondingly increased to 149.8 and 155.1 in April from their respective March levels of 149.5 and 154.5.

More than 10 million households were reported to have children 5-17 years old during the period October 1, 2000 to September 30, 2001, an increase of 9.3 percent from the 9.6 million households reported during the period July 1, 1994 to June 30,…

On an annual basis, the general level of prices increased by 3.6 percent in April, similar to the inflation rate posted in March. Inflation a year ago was 6.8 percent.

Reported earnings for March 2002 declined by 0.7 percent to $2.848 billion from $2.870 billion during the same month a year earlier. Receipts from merchandise exports for January to March 2002 went down by 5.3 percent to $8.108 billion from $8.564…

The number of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) who worked abroad during the period April to September 2001 was estimated at 1.03 million, up by 5.2 percent from 978 thousand a year ago.