Total external trade in goods for January to October 2001 amounted to $52.244 billion or 9.5 percent lower than $57.747 billion in 2000. Bill for foreign-made merchandise declined by 4.2 percent to $25.369 billion from $26.482 billion. On the other…

Labor force population in October 2001 increased by 2.5 million or 7.9% to 33.4 million from last year's estimate of 30.9 million. Labor force participation rate likewise increased to 67.5% from 64.3%.

The seasonally adjusted CPI of FBT in NCR slightly went down to 149.3 in November from 149.4 in October.

A freshman from Bohol topped the 10th Philippine Statistics Quiz (PSQ) held on December 4 at the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas. Sixteen-year-old Nathanael Hinay, a Computer Engineering major at the Central Visayas State College of Agriculture,…

Year-on-year inflation slowed down to 4.4 percent in November from 5.4 percent in October brought about by the deceleration in the inflation rates of all the commodity groups. The November 2000 inflation was 6.0 percent.

Ten-month total dollar inflow from merchandise exports for January to October 2001 fell by 14.0 percent to $26.873 billion from $31.265 billion during the same period last year. For October 2001, reported earnings went down by 13.5 percent to $2.…

Value of Production Index (VaPI) of the manufacturing industry in September 2001 registered single digit year-on-year increases both in 1994 and 1985-based series at 6.4 percent and 1.1 percent, respectively, according to the preliminary results of…

Total external trade in goods for January to September 2001 amounted to $46.933 billion or 8.9 percent lower than $51.495 billion in 2000. Bill for foreign-made merchandise declined by 2.7 percent to $22.999 billion from $23.628 billion. On the…

The October seasonally adjusted CPI of FBT in NCR remained at its September figure of 149.5.

Receipts from merchandise exports for January to September 2001 fell by 14.1 percent to $23.934 billion from $27.867 billion during the same period last year. For September 2001, reported earnings declined by 22.0 percent to $2.731 billion from $3.…