Press Releases

More than 50 million have Access to the Internet (2020 Census of Population and Housing)

 

Of the 26,374,653 households, 56.1 percent or 14,794,590 households reported that they have access to the internet. (Table B and Figure 1) Among the 17 regions, National Capital Region (NCR) had the highest proportion of its households with internet…
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Literacy Rate and Educational Attainment Among Persons Five Years Old and Over in the Philippines (2020 Census of Population and Housing)

 

Based on the 2020 Census of Population and Housing (2020 CPH), of the 97,600,336 household population five years old and over, 94,627,566 persons (97.0%) were literate. This translates to a 1.2 percentage point improvement from the 85,953,030…
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Household Characteristics (2020 Census of Population and Housing)

 

In the 2020 Census of Population and Housing (2020 CPH), about 50.7 percent of the 26.4 million households had their kitchen garbage picked up by garbage trucks. On the other hand, 16.3 percent disposed their kitchen garbage by burning. Other usual…
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Foreign Citizens in the Country (2020 Census of Population and Housing)

 

In 2020, about 108,538,558 or 99.9 percent of the 108,667,043 household population are Filipino citizens. Filipinos with dual citizenship, on the other hand, reached 50,089, with less than 0.1 percent. Foreign citizens totaled to 78,396 persons or 0…
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Ethnicity in the Philippines (2020 Census of Population and Housing)

 

About one in every four (26.0%) of the 108.67 million household population in 2020 reported Tagalog as their ethnicity. Other major ethnicities were Bisaya/Binisaya (14.3%), Ilocano and Cebuano (8.0% each), Ilonggo (7.9%), Bikol/Bicol (6.5%), Waray…
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Call for Applicants for Contract of Service Workers (COSWs) Positions for Service and Industry Census Division (SICD) and Crops Statistics Division (CSD)

 

Applicants are required to submit the following: 1. Scanned copy of signed APPLICATION LETTER stating the specific position title with salary grade (SG) level and specific place of assignment as posted. An Applicant may apply for a maximum of two (2…
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2020 Annual Survey of Philippine Business and Industry (ASPBI) - Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing Sector: Final Results

 

The Annual Survey of Philippine Business and Industry (ASPBI) final results showed that a total of 2,514 establishments in the formal sector of the economy were engaged in agriculture, forestry, and fishing activities in 2020. This represents a -9.8…
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Producer Price Index (PPI) for Agriculture (2018=100) : First Quarter 2023

 

At the national level, the PPI for agriculture registered an annual growth rate of 21.7 percent in the first quarter of 2023. This was slower than the recorded year-on-year increment in the fourth quarter of 2022 at 24.7 percent. In the first…
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Press Conference on the June 2023 Inflation

 

The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) announces the conduct of Press Conference on the June 2023 Inflation Report, which will be held on 05 July 2023 (wednesday) at 9:00 AM.
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Public Advisory

 

This is to inform the general public, as well as all government and non-government organizations, about people and organizations that are illegally using the name of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) to encourage customers to secure their…
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