Total external trade in goods for January 2003 amounted to $5.608 billion or 20.8 percent higher than $4.641 billion in 2002. The bill for foreign-made merchandise gained by 45.1 percent to $2.917 billion from $2.010 billion. On the other hand,…

Labor force population in January 2003 increased by 1.8 percent to 33.7 million from 33.1 million in January last year. Labor force participation rate slightly declined by 0.7 percentage point, from 66.4 percent in January 2002 to 65.7 percent in…

The seasonally adjusted CPI of FBT items in NCR and AONCR correspondingly went up to 152.4 and 157.0 in February from their respective January levels of 151.8 and 156.2.

The National Statistics Office (NSO) deployed over 25,000 personnel in the first lap of the nationwide census-taking of the Censuses of Agriculture and Fisheries 2002 (CAF 2002), which began March 3. Taken every ten years, CAF is a large-scale…

Year-on-year inflation moved upward to 3.1 percent in February from 2.7 percent in January as the inflation in food, beverages and tobacco (FBT), fuel, light and water (FLW) and services went up. Inflation a year ago was 3.5 percent.

Merchandise exports registered 3.6 percent increase Registered earnings for February 2003 went up by 3.6 percent to $2.724 billion from $2.628 billion during the same month last year . Receipts from merchandise exports for January to February 2003…

Value of Production Index (VaPI) gains slightly Value of Production Index (VaPI) of the manufacturing industry continued to increase at a slower rate of 0.6 percent in December 2002 compared with year ago figure, according to the preliminary…

Total external trade in goods for January to December 2002 amounted to $68.537 billion or 11.1 percent higher than $61.701 billion in 2001. The bill for foreign-made merchandise grew up by 13.3 percent to $33.471 billion from $29.551 billion.…

The seasonally adjusted CPI of FBT items in NCR rose to 151.8 in January from 151.1 in December.

Year-on-year inflation slightly went up to 2.7 percent in January from 2.6 percent in December mainly due to the higher inflation posted in the services index. Inflation a year ago was 3.8 percent.