Year-on-year inflation slowed down to 2.7 percent in October from 2.9 percent in September as the inflation rates of food, beverages and tobacco (FBT) and housing and repairs (H&R) decelerated. Inflation a year ago was 5.5 percent.
For September 2002, reported earnings went up by 16.8 percent to $3.190 billion from $2.731 billion during the same month a year earlier. Receipts from merchandise exports for January to September 2002 increased by 8.8 percent to $26.039 billion…
Value of Production Index (VaPI) drops in August 2002
For August 2002, Value of Production Index (VaPI) of the manufacturing industry dropped by 8.5 percent compared with year ago figure, according to the preliminary results of the Monthly…
Building Permit Applications Increased by 25.1 Percent
Building permit applications during the second quarter of 2002 nationwide totaled 25,459, representing an increase of 25.1 percent compared with 20,354 applications recorded over the same…
Thirty-five percent of currently married women are reported using modern family planning methods such as pills, condom, female sterilization, male sterilization, IUD, injection, diaphragm/foam/jelly/ cream, temperature or standard days method this…
Total external trade in goods for January to August 2002 amounted to $44.956 billion or 7.8 percent higher than $41.702 billion in 2001. The bill for foreign-made merchandise moved up by 7.8 percent to $22.108 billion from $20.499 billion. On the…
Caloocan City recorded a total population of 1,177,604 persons in the 2000 Census of Population and Housing (Census 2000). This was up by 154,445 persons as compared to 1,023,159 persons recorded in the 1995 Census of Population (POPCEN). For the…
In 2000, total family expenditures for fuel, light and water was reported at P112.7 billion, an increase of P38 billion or 50.9 percent from 1997 figure of P74.6 billion. Of this amount, P59.9 billion or 53.2 percent was on electricity expenditures…