Total external trade in goods for January to August 2001 amounted to $41.702 billion or 7.4 percent lower than $45.02 billion in 2000. Bill for foreign-made merchandise declined by 0.8 percent to $20.499 billion from $20.655 billion. On the other…

The contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR) or the proportion of married women 15-49 years reporting current use of contraceptives drops to 47.0 percent in 2000 from the 49.3 percent recorded in 1999 (Figure 1). This is primarily caused by the decrease…

Ranking of Provinces for Selected Poverty Indicators is a compilation of fifteen selected minimum basic needs indicators taken from the 1999 Annual Poverty Indicators Survey (APIS). The provinces were arranged based on the percentage of families…

The seasonally adjusted CPI of FBT in NCR went down to 149.7 in September from 150.4 in August.

Year-on-year inflation slowed down to 6.1 percent in September from 6.3 percent in August. Inflation in the National Capital Region (NCR) declined to 6.7 percent in September from 7.6 in August mainly due to the reduction in the prices of food items.

The number of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) who worked abroad from April to September 2000 was estimated at 978 thousand, down by 3.7 percent over the 1,016 thousand in the same period in 1999.

Total value of merchandise exports for January to August 2001 fell by 13.0 percent to $21.203 billion from $24.365 billion during the same period last year. For August 2001, reported earnings declined by 25.8 percent to $2.621 billion from $3.529…

Value of Production Index (VaPI) of the manufacturing industry in July 2001 registered year-on-year increases both in 1985 and 1994-based series at 11.4 percent and 2.3 percent, respectively, according to the preliminary results of the Monthly…

Labor force population in July 2001 was 6.7% higher than the estimate of 30.5 million a year ago. Labor force participation rate, likewise, increased to 66.3% from 63.8%. Employed persons totaled 29.3 million in July 2001, up by 8.1% over July 2000.

Total external trade in goods for January to July 2001 amounted to $36.497 billion or 6.1 percent lower than $38.848 billion in 2000. Bills for foreign-made merchandise decreased by 0.5 percent to $17.915 billion from $18.013 billion. On the other…