Year-on-year inflation slightly decelerated to 2.9 percent in September from 3.0 percent in August. This was effected by the slower rates recorded in the indices of food, beverages and tobacco (FBT) and housing and repairs (H&R). Inflation a…

Merchandise exports declined by 2.2 percent Registered earnings for August 2003 dropped by 2.2 percent to $2.966 billion from $3.032 billion during the same month last year. Receipts from merchandise exports for January to August 2003 rose by 0.2…

Value of Production Index (VaPI) jumps in July 2003 Value of Production Index (VaPI) of the manufacturing industry went up by 12.9 percent in July 2003 compared with year-ago figure, according to the preliminary results of the Monthly Integrated…

The June 2003 round of the Customer Satisfaction Survey (CSS) showed that 70 percent of NSO's clients were either satisfied or very satisfied with the way NSO did its job. This was 14 percentage points higher than a year ago at 56 percent in June…

Total external trade in goods for January to July 2003 amounted to $41.838 billion or 4.5 percent higher than $40.021 billion during the same period last year. The bill for foreign-made merchandise went up by 8.5 percent to $21.803 billion from $20.…

Of the population 15 years old and over, there were those who were in the labor force and those who were not...

Forty-four percent or about 2.8 million out of 6.4 million Filipino families in the bottom 40% income group do not have electricity in their homes based on the 2002 Annual Poverty Indicators Survey (APIS). In comparison, only 6 percent or 573…

2003 In memoriam of his passing, the 12th Philippine Statistics Quiz paid tribute to National Scientist and statistician par excellance Dr. Tito A. Mijares. For the first eleven years of the PSQ, Dr. Mijares served as the chair of its Board of…

In 2002, out-of-school Filipino children and youth were 14.7 percent or 4.84 million out of 32.96 million population aged 6 to 24 years. Among the 16 regions, the percentage was highest in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) (23.1…

The seasonally adjusted CPI of FBT items in NCR went up to 153.3 in August from 152.8 in July.