Introduction These results were based on the interim Monthly Integrated Survey of Selected Industries (MISSI), a survey of the National Statistics Office (NSO) with the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). The MISSI will eventually provide…

Total trade in goods for the first two months of 1998 amounted to $9.765 billion, an increase of 8.9 percent over $8.969 billion recorded during the same period in 1997. Payments for imported goods went down by 0.8 percent to $5.423 billion from $5.…

Measured from a year ago, the national inflation rate slightly slowed down to 7.3 percent in March from 7.4 percent last month. The index was estimated at 253.0 in March from 251.4 in February.

Merchandise exports for January to February 1998 increased by 23.9 percent to $4.342 billion from $3.505 billion a year earlier. Receipts from exports in February amounted to $2.227 billion or 22.9 percent higher from $1.812 billion last year.

Merchandise trade for the first month of 1998 reached $4.947 billion, which was a 9.2 percent increase from the year-ago level of $4.530 billion. Export receipts went up by 25.0 percent to $2.115 billion from $1.692 billion a year earlier while…

The labor force population of the country in January 1998 reached 30.2 million, higher by 608 thousand or 2.1 percent over the January 1997 estimate. However, the corresponding labor force participation rate dropped from 65.4 percent in January 1997…

Measured from a year ago, the national inflation rate went up to 7.4 percent in February from 6.4 percent last month. The index was estimated at 251.4 in February from 248.0 in January.

Revenue from merchandise exports for January 1998 increased by 24.8 percent to $2.112 billion from $1.692 billion a year ago. Compared to $2.230 billion the previous month, however, export receipts went down by 5.3 percent.

Total merchandise trade for the whole year of 1997 increased by 15.5 percent to $61.164 billion from $52.970 billion in 1996. Export earnings rose by 22.8 percent to $25.228 billion from $20.543 while imports went up by 10.8 percent to $35.936…

Merchandise exports registered aggregate receipts of $25.228 billion in 1997 moving up by 22.8 percent from $20.543 billion in 1996. The growth in exports was primed by the performance of electronics and components as well as input/output/peripheral…